How to install xsock?

Question

I downloaded library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsock/.
In INSTALL file are steps to run this libs. I changed location to xsock/libxsock and type in terminal ./configure Nothing happend... How to solve this?

1. cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type ./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're using csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type sh ./configure' instead to prevent csh' from trying to execute configure' itself.

   Running `configure' takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make' to compile the package.

3. ... 4...

Answer 1

The library is broken, and cannot be built as distributed. A number of autoconf/automake files are missing from the archive.

Given that the library appears to have been primarily developed on Windows systems, it seems likely to me that the UNIX parts of the build process for this library have not been maintained, or may never have worked at all. My recommendation is that you find another library — this one seems to be largely unmaintained, and the code quality seems rather low.