Make sure that 'makedepend' is installed on your system (usually included in the Xfree86 developement package) and is in your PATH when you run configure (on my redhat system, it is in /usr/X11R6/bin) Note that make depend is not a critical error in terms of building the client and you can pretty safely ignore any errors on makedepend. (unless you plan to do developement, the dependancies should not be very important)