xfce4

[Landy Roman]

so far this is the only error encountered
please adivce

checking if the linker (/usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld...
yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig
./ltconfig: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed
landie at pepino:~/xfce-devel/xffm >