Make?

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 22:48, Katherine Chant wrote:
> So I DL dvdread, in gzip form.  Unzip
> and yadda yadda, try to make.  Nope, says no makefile (when I can see
> that there is a Makefile.in and a Makefile.am in said folder).  So I'm
> thinking, rpm, not so clean, but hey, I'm daring.  So when I run
> rpmdrake, gives me have to install the file I'm installing as a
> dependency, and then gives me file is corrupt or some such.  So all I
> can think is that I am missing something horrendously obvious.  I tried
> to make both as user AND as Su, thinking maybe I needed to root to
> install.  Anybody able to point out my clear newby mistake?

I'm not familiar with that package or how mandrake rpm works, but a lot
of sources want you to run ./configure, then make, and usually make
install

Ogle is another good dvd player, chapters work real nice.

-Bill