[XeTeX] can not build xetex0.998.3 in linux

[Jonathan Kew]

On 24 May 2008, at 12:06 pm, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:

> I am using ubuntu linux. after installing gcc, flex and bison, it  
> continued the building but again failed at the end. I think it has  
> a problem with its path. this is what it gives at the end:
>
> ### Making xetex binary using: 'cd Work/texk/web2c && /usr/bin/make  
> web2cdir=/usr/share/texmf/web2c xetex'
> make: *** No rule to make target `xetex'.  Stop.
> ### failed to build the xetex binary
>

It sounds like the configure stage is still failing, but we'd need to  
see more output than this in order to tell why. There are probably  
error messages somewhere earlier, before all the libraries get compiled.

If you're not comfortable with the process of compiling software from  
source, installation of the required development packages, etc,  
perhaps you should simply use the ready-made package that Marcin  
announced recently on the list:

     http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-May/009730.html

If you really want to build it yourself, you'll need to look back at  
the output of configure to see why it's not creating the necessary  
Makefile. Possibly you're lacking the headers for fontconfig, or  
something like that?

JK