[ILUG] Makefile woes

[Kenn Humborg]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:23:41PM +0000, David Ryan wrote:
> Can anyone who knows anything about Makefiles help please ?
> 
> I am trying to install kldap (which is supposed to be a graphical LDAP
> directory browser) and have hit a glitch when editing the Makefile.
> 
> The original file had "CC = c++" which I changed to "CC = gcc" since the
> original didn't work and I remembered from looking through (but not
> understanding) other Makefiles that "gcc" seemed to be a good thing.

Put it back to c++.

> 
> Anyway, after getting all the incude files to include I am now faced
> with the following error -
> 
> pooter:/kldap # make
> gcc -c -Wall -O2 -I/usr/lib/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/kde/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/g++-2.7 kldap.cpp
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
> make: *** [kldap.o] Error 1

You need to install the c++ compiler, which is a separate package
on my RH5.2 system.  Look for an RPM on your CD with c++ in the name
(probably egcs-c++ or gcc-c++)

> Even better, anyone know of *any* LDAP directory browsers (Lin or Win)
> ?  All the links I found on the web were either dead or else pointed to
> pages which hadn't been updated since 1995, like the University of
> Michigans. 

There is a Gnome package called gq which is a graphical LDAP browser.  Don't
have a URL, but try freshmeat, rpmfind.net or www.gnome.org

Later,
Kenn