Depending on your system, and the requirements it may have, you may receive one or more errors, below are examples of some common errors you might receive, and solutions to solving them.
If you should get an error that looks like the error below, you are missing the development headers for the 'readline' package.
On Debian, the proper package is called libreadline4-dev. You can find out what the proper package is by doing the following:
So on a Debian system, you would install the 'libreadline4-dev' package as follows:
On a Red Hat system, this package is called 'readline-devel', and you would install it using whatever facilities your distribution provides for installing this package (rpm, apt-get, urpmi, rc, or others).
After installing the missing headers and library packages, re-run configure again. It should complete cleanly. If it doesn't, see if you can find what it is missing, and install it.
If configure completes cleanly, you should see the following output:
There are a couple of things there that you might want to look into. The first is that PNG support was not detected. A couple of the pilot-link conduits use PNG to output image files of that type. If you want the best-quality images, it is advisable to get the PNG support working. You can get that with the proper libpng-dev package for your distribution, if it doesn't already have it installed. Below is how it would be installed on a Debian system:
Re-run configure again, and see if it finds the PNG support this time. If you installed the right package, it should find it:
Now you can type 'make' to build pilot-link. It should building cleanly, given that all of the dependancies have been found and are tested to function properly.