Why doesn't my make ever work?

You don't need sudo to make unless the source is not in your home folder, you only need sudo for make install as you are writing to areas you do not have access to as a user.

In the pwd is there a file called MakeFile.in

You should read the INSTALL or README files, they will tell you what you need to know. Not ALL compiles are the same.

Interesting...I just tried compiling mupen64, and it actually worked. There was no need to compile it, really, as

OK, here's what I know.
1. I have no idea what pwd means....
2. In most of these cases I am following exactly what is stated in the readme, or listed on the maker's site.
3. If you meant makefile in the source folder, then there is a makefile.am

Also, right now I am having problems with the compiling of Mygui, for openmw. I may just try the deb I found here.
https://launchpad.net/~andrewfenn/+archive/ogredev

pwd == present working directory

If you "have no idea what <anything> is" websearch it. You are sat at a device attatched to the largest intelligence database known to mankind, The Internet. Use it to find out.

Please log a new question for MyGui as it is a separate issue.

Thank You...
Now I need someone to compile OpenMW as a .deb so I can get it...sigh.
By the way, I got Mygui to work through synaptic by adding an extra repository, so no worries there. Why isn't it in the Multiverse repository, anyway?

You can compile it yourself if you want, it doesn't cost anything and is not isolated to a select few, anyone can compile.

Isn't that what make is supposed to do? I'm confused.

As a side note, I'll probably wait for openmw to be actually finished and just use wine until it's done. By then someone will hopefully have compiled a .deb for it. Wine runs it better than windows xp anyways, but openmw would still be better.

If at any time you have successfully compiled and made the software
package after running sudo make install run sudo checkinstall, that will
make a .deb that you can then distribute to others or keep yourself for
removing the package :). If your problem has been solved please mark it
solved

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 08:18 +0000, <email address hidden> wrote:
> Question #93413 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/93413
>
> <email address hidden> posted a new comment:
> Isn't that what make is supposed to do? I'm confused.
>
> As a side note, I'll probably wait for openmw to be actually finished
> and just use wine until it's done. By then someone will hopefully have
> compiled a .deb for it. Wine runs it better than windows xp anyways, but
> openmw would still be better.
>

Ok, I will do that if I ever get it to work...I did mark it solved, though.

Thanks Vikram, that solved my question.

Don't put your hopes down, it will once sometime :)

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 02:48 +0000, <email address hidden> wrote:
> Question #93413 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/93413
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> <email address hidden> confirmed that the question is solved:
> Thanks Vikram, that solved my question.
>

I realized something, though. The reason no compiled version was available was that it wasn't finished. I had deluded myself into thinking it was.
Morrowind runs, but half the plugins don't. Oh well, at least I have rupees. (But no link! sob)