Help compiling programs.

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Jakkin

I've been having this problem for as long as I've tried to compile programs and its starting to piss me off. :mad:
Whenever I run the usual "configure", "make", "install" instructions, something always goes wrong and I'm sitting here with a bunch of files that are taking up hard drive space.
I've followed the README's to the letter and I can't figure out how to get the darn computer to compile the program.
I run the usual "./configure" and it'll work (whenever there's a configure file in the folder, I found that out the hard way), but my biggest problem is that when I do the "make" command, I get errors. (I type it just like they tell me, by writing "make" in the command line. No arguements, just the word.)
It always turns up as
"make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."
Then when I try to tell it to look at a file named "Makefile.*"
It will always turn up something like
"make: Nothing to be done for Makefile.*"
I've looked at tutorial after tutorial, I do everything like they say and I can't get a single program to compile. What am I missing?

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