i cant access garage now (i dont know why) so i cant check what kind of application is

but to compile a source usually we have 2 ways:
- crosscompile from scratchbox
- compile inside n900 with a development chroot

this is a link explaining the chroot creation procedure: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32772&page=8

for scratchbox, you can read this: http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...K_Installation

depending on the application, once you have 1) your development environment ready and 2) dependencies installed you can 3) compile using ./configure, make

take in account that compiling from source is (for some) a simple operation when you are lucky and you know what are you doing

if not, it is not.

hope this helps, feel free to ask

Ps: im not sure what "make" problem are you talking about. what i do know, is that every application that is not optified is a sin in n900, and every package from the fremantle tools repository is unoptified, because it thinks that you are using it in scratchbox. Thats why you need to chroot, but from there it works like a charm