as far as I can tell the sdl are in. but not real telling. I'm at a loss.`/home/dad/d2x-xl/2d'
Makefile:281: .deps/2dsline.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:282: .deps/bitblt.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:283: .deps/bitmap.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:284: .deps/box.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:285: .deps/canvas.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:286: .deps/circle.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:287: .deps/disc.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:288: .deps/font.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:289: .deps/gpixel.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:290: .deps/ibitblt.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:291: .deps/line.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:292: .deps/palette.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:293: .deps/pcx.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:294: .deps/pixel.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:295: .deps/poly.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:296: .deps/rect.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:297: .deps/rle.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:298: .deps/scalec.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:299: .deps/tmerge.Po: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/tmerge.Po'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dad/d2x-xl/2d'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dad/d2x-xl'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Big XL install trouble
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Big XL install trouble
ok.. did what i could of what you said and go this:
both of those commands failed. the last quote was the autogen line
Make clean =
Make clean =
Making clean in cfile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dad/d2x-xl/cfile'
Makefile:257: .deps/cfile.Po: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/cfile.Po'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dad/d2x-xl/cfile'
make: *** [clean-recursive] Error 1
OMG. Linux is a biotch if anything doesn't work out of the box. I once tried to install the latest gcc using the source code. You need I don't know how much other stuff for that, and you can get it all at different locations on the inet. Wonderful <cough>.
Where did you get the d2x-xl make scripts from - from the d2x-xl-makefiles.rar on my d2 site or the rar with the same name contained in the source archive?
Where did you get the d2x-xl make scripts from - from the d2x-xl-makefiles.rar on my d2 site or the rar with the same name contained in the source archive?
Please use the edit button and stop making double posts. 
Where did you get that error? When making SDL_mixer or d2x-xl?
You have to extract d2x-xl-makefiles.rar to your d2x-xl folder and have the extraction program create/use the subfolders from the archive.
It is pretty weird that make clean stops when not finding some file. If a file to be deleted aren't present it should simply proceed with the next file/folder. You can try 'make Makefile clean', but that should be equivalent to 'make clean'.
Generally you can use 'ls' to show a directory listing. 'ls -l' displays additional file info.
Actually it looks like your installation(s) are somehow messed up. After having taken another look at your folder names, I think you have to put the d2x-xl source code one directory level deeper, i.e.
/usr/home/dad/d2x-xl/src
/usr/home/dad/SDL-1.2.11
/usr/home/dad/SDL_mixer-1.2.7
That's how I have organized it.

Where did you get that error? When making SDL_mixer or d2x-xl?
You have to extract d2x-xl-makefiles.rar to your d2x-xl folder and have the extraction program create/use the subfolders from the archive.
It is pretty weird that make clean stops when not finding some file. If a file to be deleted aren't present it should simply proceed with the next file/folder. You can try 'make Makefile clean', but that should be equivalent to 'make clean'.
Generally you can use 'ls' to show a directory listing. 'ls -l' displays additional file info.
Actually it looks like your installation(s) are somehow messed up. After having taken another look at your folder names, I think you have to put the d2x-xl source code one directory level deeper, i.e.
/usr/home/dad/d2x-xl/src
/usr/home/dad/SDL-1.2.11
/usr/home/dad/SDL_mixer-1.2.7
That's how I have organized it.