Problem making linux novashell

[rboehme]

Hi there. I obtained Novashell from svn and opened the KDevelop file. I tried to "Build Project" in the build menu, and I got the response:

There is neither a Makefile.cvs not an autogen.sh script in the project directory.

which is true, but unhelpful. There is a Makefile.am, but looking at it gives me no enlightenment.

How do I compile this? The readme is rather sketchy; it just says "it should work with KDevelop after you download ClanLib 0.8"

Thanks.

Richard

[Seth]

Hrm, you might be the first person to try to build it in linux besides me, so it's very likely that I forgot to commit a file or something like that.

First, please try this:

Open the project in KDevelop, then:

1. Set Project->Build Configuration->Optimized
2. Run Build->Run Configure
3. Run Automake & friends

Now try Build Project again.

[rboehme]

Tried that, got to the 'run configure' step and encountered this:


mkdir '/home/rboehme/user/projects/lib/novashell-src/optimized' && cd '/home/rboehme/user/projects/lib/novashell-src/optimized' && CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g0" "/home/rboehme/user/projects/lib/novashell-src/configure" --prefix=/home/mrfun/dev/novashell
/bin/sh: /home/rboehme/user/projects/lib/novashell-src/configure: not found
*** Exited with status: 127 ***



What does svn status tell you is not checked in?

[Seth]

Will check this out and get back to ya, sorry for the slow replies!

[rboehme]

It's OK; my checking for replies is slow, so when I had checked, you had posted.

[Seth]

Ok, I've committed some more files. Please give 'er another go!

[rboehme]

Interesting.... the configure script is asking for /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf , not finding it, and not liking it (according to KDevelop)

I did it in KDevelop first, then the command line.

I'll try grabbing a clean copy later on.

Thanks.

Richard





The command line gives me:

rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/projects/lib/novashell-src$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: source/Makefile.in






rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-04 11:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 174 root root 8192 2008-02-18 21:46 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 2006-10-10 10:33 i486-linux-gnu
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 2006-10-10 10:33 /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu
# Multiarch support
/lib/i486-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /lib/i486-linux-gnu/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-10 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 8192 2007-12-11 13:45 ..
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /usr/lib
lib/ lib32/ lib64/
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /usr/lib/i486
i486/ i486-linux-gnu/
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-10 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 241 root root 73728 2008-02-14 13:03 ..
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ ls -al /etc/ld.so.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 2007-03-17 16:07 /etc/ld.so.conf
rboehme@rfbnew:~/user/work/workspaces$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

[Seth]

Hmm, the .in files say "generated from the makefile.am" so I figured some part of autotools would generate those..

I've committed all of the .in files, maybe that will do the trick.

Also, when updating, be sure to update the novashell dir AND the SharedLib dir.

[rboehme]

Hmm, the .in files say "generated from the makefile.am" so I figured some part of autotools would generate those..

I've committed all of the .in files, maybe that will do the trick.

Also, when updating, be sure to update the novashell dir AND the SharedLib dir.

Hmm, seems like I already had the .in files, but is still won't make. Can you remove the .in files from svn, and tell me what happens on your machine when it's successful? What does the list of files that aren't in svn look like?

[Seth]

Ok, I'm going to bite the bullet and do what I should have done in the beginning, a full checkout into a new dir and see what happens when I build.

[rayman]

already tried this:

cd /location/where/he/is/saved/and/extracted
./novashell

[Seth]

Just an update, I redid the linux setup, should be easier to build now. No longer requires any screwing with directories, just a standard single check out is needed now.