John, Still not much to go on. Are you running "configure?" Sometimes parse errors happen when files have MS-DOS cr/lf's. What is the compile doing when you get the parse error? You might want to send me a dump of the whole process off-line and maybe I can help. Jim John wrote:
All I'm trying to do is compile a few simple programs such as the game pente and the up to date version of lynx. When I try to compile pente the message: "parse error before *" appears. When I do the same for lynx: " make * * * [all] error 2. I have compiled a few programs before running Redhat Linux and most recently, Debian. Usually I found it fairly easy.
I have added in such programs as bison, flex, autoconf, automake, gettext..
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jim Sabatke wrote:
John,
I think you can find help here, but we need more specifics. What language are you using? What kind of errors are you getting? Have you compiled programs before, or are you a novice?
Jim
John wrote:
I have been trying to compile programs from source code, but I can never get them to compile correctly.
Does anyone know what packages I need to install in order to compile programs? Or should I just use Yast and select development programs?
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