Trouble with compiling

Question

G-day.
I have been having problems compiling most programs. After running the ./configure as per instruction... then make. It will start compiling but will always seems to halt and display make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' as the last line.
This has happend when trying to compile apache 2, nmap, gnu gcc 4.2.1 and other apps.
Anybody have any suggestions??

Answer 1

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The below is last lot of lines generated when trying to install Apache 2.
"Previous Compile Text"
random/unix/apr_random.lo random/unix/sha2.lo random/unix/sha2_glue.lo shmem/unix/shm.lo support/unix/waitio.lo threadproc/unix/proc.lo threadproc/unix/procsup.lo threadproc/unix/signals.lo threadproc/unix/thread.lo threadproc/unix/threadpriv.lo time/unix/time.lo time/unix/timestr.lo user/unix/groupinfo.lo user/unix/userinfo.lo -luuid -lsendfile -lrt -lsocket -lnsl -lpthread
/Desktop/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr/libtool: line 5904: ar: command not found
*** Error code 127
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libapr-1.la'
Current working directory /Desktop/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
otarget=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
list='random/unix dso/os2 time/unix locks/unix user/unix locks/beos tables support/unix file_io/unix mmap/unix atomic/unix poll/os2 dso/os390 atomic/os390 dso/beos poll/unix passwd network_io/beos threadproc/os2 network_io/os2 threadproc/beos shmem/unix network_io/unix file_io/os2 dso/aix threadproc/unix misc/unix shmem/beos dso/unix locks/os2 shmem/os2 memory/unix strings '; \
for i in $list; do \
if test -f "$i/Makefile"; then \
target="$otarget"; \
echo "Making $target in $i"; \
if test "$i" = "."; then \
made_local=yes; \
target="local-$target"; \
fi; \
(cd $i && make $target) || exit 1; \
fi; \
done; \
if test "$otarget" = "all" && test -z "libapr-1.la export_vars.c apr.exp"; then \
made_local=yes; \
fi; \
if test "$made_local" != "yes"; then \
make "local-$otarget" || exit 1; \
fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /Desktop/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
otarget=`echo all-recursive|sed s/-recursive//`; \
list=' apr apr-util pcre '; \
for i in $list; do \
if test -d "$i"; then \
target="$otarget"; \
echo "Making $target in $i"; \
if test "$i" = "."; then \
made_local=yes; \
target="local-$target"; \
fi; \
(cd $i && make $target) || exit 1; \
fi; \
done; \
if test "$otarget" = "all" && test -z ''; then \
made_local=yes; \
fi; \
if test "$made_local" != "yes"; then \
make "local-$otarget" || exit 1; \
fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /Desktop/httpd-2.2.6/srclib
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
otarget=`echo all-recursive|sed s/-recursive//`; \
list=' srclib os server modules support'; \
for i in $list; do \
if test -d "$i"; then \
target="$otarget"; \
echo "Making $target in $i"; \
if test "$i" = "."; then \
made_local=yes; \
target="local-$target"; \
fi; \
(cd $i && make $target) || exit 1; \
fi; \
done; \
if test "$otarget" = "all" && test -z 'httpd '; then \
made_local=yes; \
fi; \
if test "$made_local" != "yes"; then \
make "local-$otarget" || exit 1; \
fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
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