[CentOS] A quick question about ./configure

[Akemi Yagi]

On 9/28/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Ing. Manuel Lazo <malazo at multiaccesorios.com> wrote:
> >
> > Akemi Yagi escribió:
>
> > > If I still remember the original poster's question correctly, he wants
> > > to install mplayer and avidemux2 on CentOS.  As I wrote ages ago,
> > > mplayer can be installed without going through the compiling process.
> > > avidemux2 is more challenging.  I myself need it for our desktop
> > > running CentOS 5 and am still scratching my head.  I will certainly
> > > share it once I get it built successfully.
> > >
> > > Akemi
>
> > Thanks to all for your support. I allready installed mplayer from the
> > repository (dag), but no luck with avidemux. I did compile it under
> > CentOS 4 about a year ago, but no luck with CentOS 5.
>
> OK, compilation successful.  After having spent so much time trying to
> rebuild from available srpms, I was not going anywhere -- none of the
> srpms tried worked.  Turns out the good old make; make install
> strategy was the way to go.  This is what I did:
>
> (1) Download the tar file from sourceforge: avidemux_2.4_preview2.tar.gz
> (2) tar xvzf avidemux_2.4_preview2.tar.gz
> (3) cd avidemux_2.4_preview2
> (4) make -f Makefile.dist
>    (If you get an error that says, 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found, yum
> install gettext-devel)
> (5) make
> If no error, install it as root
> (6) make install
>    (Default is to install into /usr/local)

An obvious omission: (4.5) ./configure

Akemi