A thing to try is starting from scratch by unpacking the .tgz source
package again in an empty directory. Configure it like:
./configure 2>&1 | tee configure.log
and build it like:
make 2>&1 | tee make.log
If anything goes wrong, you can review the log files to locate the
problem. Or a relevant part of this can be attached to an email that
could be helpful when requesting help from the mailing list.
The ''./configure'' command is a script that analyzes your system and performs some configuration to ensure the source package compiles on your system. It will take a few minutes to run, and will compile a few tests to determine what compiler features are installed.
This runs the GNU make tool, which automatically compiles all the source packages into the final installed binary executables.
This will install the compiler, other executables libraries and include
files into the appropriate directories. See section ''Install and
Search PATHS''.
On most systems you will need super-user privileges to do this.