Some errors when trying to compile gnome 2

[Juan Manuel Enrique Muñido <jmenrique gmx net>]

Hello you lot

I am a Debian 3.0 user and this is the first time I try to compile
gnome-2, so I need some help

After compiling (apparently) succesfully linc-0.5.0, when I do "make
install", I got the following Errors:

-- Installing ./html/index.sgml
/usr/bin/install: can't execute 'stat' on './html/index.sgml': File or
directory not found
make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/usr/local/share/temp/gnome2/linc-0.5.0/docs'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/usr/local/share/temp/gnome2/linc-0.5.0/docs'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I got similar errors when compiling or installing ORbit,
bonobo-activation, libbnonobo and so on. So I can't compile the gnome-2
tarballs.

Please, give some help on the correct way for compiling gnome2 packages
(better if you send me some links with documentation related to the
gnome-2 compilation process).

Thanks to all.
-- 
Juan Manuel Enrique Muñido - Badajoz - Spain.
http://www.terra.es/personal8/juanmaenrique/index.html
Registered Linux user #232064.