On Monday 18 January 2010 02:39 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 21:33:44 Smith, Herb wrote: >> I downloaded the mplayer plugin for Firefox, unpacked it into a folder and >> tried to build it per the instructions with the default settings >> (configure then make). I get an error that I'm missing a file and then I >> get numerous errors regarding things in some of the header files and other >> source files as though gcc is complaining about stuff that is not defined >> (perhaps defined in that missing file...) >> >> Here is what I get: >> >> include/npplat.h:42:19: error: npupp.h: No such file or directory > [snip] >> What am I missing here? > > Second, if you insist on compiling whatever you downloaded yourself, > > $ yum whatprovides */npupp.h > qt3-devel-3.3.8b-28.fc12.x86_64 : Development files for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit > qt3-devel-3.3.8b-28.fc12.i686 : Development files for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit > > so you should "yum install qt3-devel" and try again. If it reports another file > missing, ask yum what package provides that file and install it. Rinse and > repeat. I find grepping for the error through the ./configure script or grepping for `include' in the source a good way to generate a list of dependencies before compiling something. :) > HTH, :-) > Marko Just a thought ;) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
