[Techtalk] Install went wrong

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 02:49, Andrew wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	I bet there is someone here who can tell what went wrong.  And where.
> And possibly what to do about it. 

Others have told you what to do about it, so I'll tell you what went
wrong. :)

(rough guide: pure-sysadmin types know how to fix this sort of stuff.
pure-programmer types know what is wrong. Blends know both.)

The first thing you did was run 'configure', which is a script that
determines what's in your system and writes a file called 'config.h'
which is read by the next stage and tells it which options to use.

> [root at Linux1a korinoco-0.2.1]# make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andrew/Desktop/DWloaded
> progs/K-wireless/korinoco-0.2.1'
> Making all in korinoco
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andrew/Desktop/DWloaded
> progs/K-wireless/korinoco-0.2.1/korinoco'
> c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/qt2/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include
>  -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new  -c stuff.cpp
> In file included from stuff.cpp:18:
> stuff.h:6:28: arts/iomanager.h: No such file or directory
> stuff.h:7:29: arts/dispatcher.h: No such file or directory
> stuff.cpp:22:27: arts/artsflow.h: No such file or directory
> stuff.cpp:23:26: arts/connect.h: No such file or directory
> stuff.cpp:24:28: arts/iomanager.h: No such file or directory
> stuff.cpp:25:33: arts/referenceclean.h: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [stuff.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/Desktop/DWloaded
> progs/K-wireless/korinoco-0.2.1/korinoco'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/Desktop/DWloaded
> progs/K-wireless/korinoco-0.2.1'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Make is a tool for compiling or building source programs into
executables. (Make doesn't actually do it, but you can write 'make
scripts' that list which files must be present and what tasks must be
performed. Make scripts are often also used for installation.)

So make read the config.h, read it's script file (Makefile, usually),
and started trying to compile the source code.
In the source files stuff.h and stuff.cpp, the source code mentioned
that it needed the 'header files' for various arts packages. But Make
couldn't find them, so it reported the error and failed.

The make install failed because the make had failed - the code wasn't
completely compiled.

Header files are files used in C to declare what a function is like. If
the header files are missing, the files that actually contain those
functions will probably also be missing. (And if your program needs the
headers, it almost always needs the functions, too.)

In Debian, and I assume in RedHat and others, the 'you can compile
against this' version of a package is different from the 'you can use
this' version. In Debian, the compile-against package for foo is usually
called foo-devel.

You need to find the package that contains 'artsflow.h' and the other
files, and download those. Look for -devel packages.

Then you will need to read the INSTALL file and find the script (usually
a make script similar to 'make clean') that gets read of the detritus of
failed installation attempts, run it, then run the configure/make/make
install sequence again.


Does this help?



Jenn V.
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