<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >When compiling GTK+ I get an error like: make: file `Makefile' line 456: Syntax error [GTK 2.x]</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="How to find, configure, install, and troubleshoot GTK+" HREF="c192.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How do I configure/compile GTK+? [GTK 2.x]" HREF="x261.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="I've compiled and installed GTK+, but I can't get any programs to link with it! [GTK 2.x]" HREF="x284.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x261.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >How to find, configure, install, and troubleshoot GTK+</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x284.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN278" >When compiling GTK+ I get an error like: <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >make: file `Makefile' line 456: Syntax error</TT > <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >[GTK 2.x]</I ></A ></H1 ><P >Make sure that you are using GNU make (use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >make -v</TT > to check). There are many weird and wonderful versions of make out there, and not all of them handle the automatically generated Makefiles.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x261.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x284.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How do I configure/compile GTK+? <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >[GTK 2.x]</I ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c192.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >I've compiled and installed GTK+, but I can't get any programs to link with it! <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >[GTK 2.x]</I ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >