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$ make make -C src gcc -o ideviceactivate ideviceactivate.c activate.c cache.c util.c -g -pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -limobiledevice -lplist -lusbmuxd -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgnutls -ltasn1 -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 -lcurl...

worked like a charm, thanks.... now if I can figure out what's going on with idevicerestore