libcanberra is failing to build

Question

I got version 0.26 from libcanberra site, and running make gives:

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `README', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/gnome/libcanberra-0.26/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/gnome/libcanberra-0.26'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Output of ./configure:

prefix:                 /usr/local
sysconfdir:             ${prefix}/etc
localstatedir:          ${prefix}/var
Compiler:               gcc -std=gnu99
CFLAGS:                 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wextra -pedantic -pipe -Wno-long-long -Winline -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wpacked -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option -fno-strict-aliasing
C++-Compiler:           g++
CXXFLAGS:               -g -O2
Builtin DSO:            yes
Enable PulseAudio:      yes
Builtin PulseAudio:     no
Enable ALSA:            yes
Builtin ALSA:           no
Enable OSS:             yes
Builtin OSS:            no
Enable GStreamer:       yes
Builtin GStreamer:      no
Enable Null Output:     yes
Builtin Null Output:    no
Enable tdb:             no
Enable lookup cache:    no
Enable GTK+:            yes
GTK Modules Directory:  ${exec_prefix}/lib/gtk-2.0/modules
Enable GTK3+:           yes
GTK3 Modules Directory: ${exec_prefix}/lib/gtk-3.0/modules

UPDATE: I'm no longer experiencing this problem and have no idea what fixed it.

@Tshepang: Show us what make command you ran (make all-am?) and the full output from that command. And put a link to the source you downloaded. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Dec 10 '10 at 18:32
@Tshepang: maybe mark this one as answered so it doesn't keep popping up? — Faheem Mitha, Jun 16 '11 at 12:39
@Tshepang: Add your own answer, then accept it. "No longer experiencing" qualifies as an answer, I think. Another option would be to simply remove the question. — Faheem Mitha, Jun 20 '11 at 10:08
@FaheemMitha: As mentioned in the update to my post, I have no idea what fixed it. — tshepang, Jun 20 '11 at 10:15
@Tshepang: Yes, I'm aware of that. Perhaps there should be some category for unanswerable questions, but since there isn't, I'm suggesting you add a "dummy" answer, and accept it. — Faheem Mitha, Jun 20 '11 at 11:59
@FaheemMitha: I've never heard of the scheme you are suggesting. It does make sense, but is it used elsewhere? Would you like to ask on Meta about that scheme, Do we leave posts Unanswered if the questioner has moved on? — tshepang, Jun 20 '11 at 12:05
@Tshepang: Sure, you could ask on Meta. Maybe there is some policy. — Faheem Mitha, Jun 20 '11 at 12:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '10 at 19:19

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You're probably missing the GTK-Doc tools to generate documentation.

One way to find out these dependencies by looking at what distributions do to build the package. For example on Debian, in debian/control, the dependencies (except Debian-specific stuff) are

m4, libltdl-dev | libltdl7-dev (>= 2.2.6), libasound2-dev, libvorbis-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.20), tdb-dev (> 1.1), gtk-doc-tools, libpulse-dev (>= 0.9.11), libgstreamer0.10-dev (>= 0.10.15)

answered Dec 10 '10 at 19:19

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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The command for that is apt-get build-dep libcanberra. Anyways, I did run it and still got the same problem. BTW my problem got fixed later on by... who knows. I wish I could pinpoint what the trouble was :( – tshepang Dec 11 '10 at 08:44

libcanberra is failing to build

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