[SOLVED] Recipie for target all-recursive failed

Question

Hello Arch Forums! I'm compiling prboom and alephone. Both give me the same error,
Makefile:285: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
I've done some searching and still haven't found a solution. What is all-recursive, and how can I continue installation?
Here's the full report:
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/doc'
Making all in data
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/data'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/data'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/src'
Making all in SDL
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/src/SDL'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..     -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-switch -march=native -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Winline -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wdeclaration-after-statement -ffast-math -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -I../../src -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -MT i_sshot.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/i_sshot.Tpo -c -o i_sshot.o i_sshot.c
i_sshot.c: In function ‘I_ScreenShot’:
i_sshot.c:234:32: error: ‘png_error_ptr_NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
         PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING, png_error_ptr_NULL, error_fn, warning_fn);
                                ^
i_sshot.c:234:32: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
i_sshot.c:282:43: error: ‘png_infopp_NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
       png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr,  png_infopp_NULL);
                                           ^
Makefile:242: recipe for target 'i_sshot.o' failed
make[3]: *** [i_sshot.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/src/SDL'
Makefile:460: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0/src'
Makefile:285: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/switch/Downloads/prboom-2.5.0'
Makefile:205: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Last edited by SwitchDhole (2015-03-04 05:59:45)

Answer 1

This sounds like a problem that is specific to the package or the code itself. I'm don't use either of those, but I can give you some general recommendations.
`pacman -Syu` has been known to fix compilation errors when a package depends on a header file that is owned by another package. Unfortunately this works the other way around, too: the packages you're trying to install might depend on an older header file that has been upgraded by pacman. The latter is usually a result of outdated code and is much harder to fix.
`grep png_error_ptr_NULL -R /usr/include` will show you which header files the identifier appears in (if any). One of them should contain the declaration, so make sure that file is #include'd in i_sshot.c
For best results, I recommend contacting the package maintainer, posting a comment on the AUR package page, or contacting upstream directly. Those users are likely to be more knowledgeable about this software than the rest of us on the forum.