wine users - Nov 2008 - Compiled Wine with two errors - Are they Important?

I am new to linux, well almost.


I found all of the recommended dev files from the Wine HQ recommendations for
the Debian distro then followed the directions in the readme file that came with
the source download.

the ./configure
      make depend
      make

commands appeared to work but I have a couple errors I don't know how to
interpret.  I checked the previous Wine install for the version and it still
shows 0.9.25 in the dialog>about tab.

Here are the last few lines of the compile report from the root terminal:

make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls/dinput/tests'
make[2]: *** No targets.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls/dinput/tests'
make[1]: *** [dinput/tests] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls'
make: *** [dlls] Error 2
Gobbles-debian:/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1#

How should I proceed?  Are these two errors critical to the compile?

Thank you for your input and efforts.

On Thursday November 13 2008 22:56:02 xtrchessreal
wrote:
> I am new to linux, well almost.
>
>
> I found all of the recommended dev files from the Wine HQ recommendations
> for the Debian distro then followed the directions in the readme file that
> came with the source download.
>
> the ./configure
>       make depend
>       make
>
> commands appeared to work but I have a couple errors I don't know how
to
> interpret.  I checked the previous Wine install for the version and it
> still shows 0.9.25 in the dialog>about tab.
	It is better practice to use command wine --version. Also you probably want 
to uninstall binary package if you have it installed before installing from 
source. And of course you have to run sudo make install to install from source 
(but only after successful compilation).
	If you don't want install Wine compiled by yourself you may run Wine
without
installation directly from its source directory (for example by 
typing "./wine" without quotes assuming you are at the root of Wine
source).
> Here are the last few lines of the compile report from the root terminal:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls/dinput/tests' make[2]: ***
No
> targets.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls/dinput/tests' make[1]: ***
> [dinput/tests] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/dlls'
> make: *** [dlls] Error 2
> Gobbles-debian:/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1#
>
> How should I proceed?  Are these two errors critical to the compile?
	You didn't include actual error (lookup for first error - it probably will 
help you find the source of the problem).
	Also make sure to run configure --verbose and satisfy all dependencies before 
compiling.
	If still doesn't work feel free to ask for further assistance but don't
forget to include first compilation error and everything after it.

	P.S. Personally I recommend to use Wine 1.1.8. It contains a lot of 
improvements and bug fixes.

xtrchessreal wrote:
> I am new to linux, well almost.
>
>
> I found all of the recommended dev files from the Wine HQ recommendations
for the Debian distro then followed the directions in the readme file that came
with the source download.
>
> the ./configure
>        make depend
>        make
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/x/Downloads/wine101/wine-1.0.1/
Wine-1.0.1 is pretty old now.  My linux distro installs 1.1.4 as the
stable version and 1.1.8 as the experimental version.  I can't answer
your actual question for you, sorry, but I'd consider using maybe the
1.1.4?  At least you'll probably have a different question ;o)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:56 PM, xtrchessreal <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> I am new to linux, well almost.
>
>
> I found all of the recommended dev files from the Wine HQ recommendations
for the Debian distro then followed the directions in the readme file that came
with the source download.
>
> the ./configure
>      make depend
>      make
>
> commands appeared to work but I have a couple errors I don't know how
to interpret.  I checked the previous Wine install for the version and it still
shows 0.9.25 in the dialog>about tab.
>
> Here are the last few lines of the compile report from the root terminal:
Why are you compiling as root?

--
-Austin