Cant complie from source...

Summary:

tried to follow the nano tutorial and failed. as usual :/

Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 03 Jun 2011 19:59

MyBookLive:~/project/ncurses-5.6# ./configure
checking for egrep… grep -E
Configuring NCURSES 5.6 ABI 5 (Fri Jan 21 16:17:29 PST 2011)
checking build system type… powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type… powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
Configuring for linux-gnu
checking for prefix… /usr
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Ive installed gcc, build-utils, g++ and still get this error :<

Last edited on 03 Jun 2011 20:01 by sadpanda Show more

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 03 Jun 2011 22:08

Now even worse, I put my pc in standby, came back and now the MBL wont accept connections anymore D:

Re: Cant complie from source...

Mieze 03 Jun 2011 22:28

In order to successfully compile software on the MB Live you need to install the following packages from squeeze:

• binutils
• libc6-dev
• libc6-dev-bin
• libc-bin
• libc6
• libc6-ppc64
• gcc-4.2
• gcc-4.2-base

The corresponding packages from lenny are to old for the installed libraries. Do not try to downgrade!!!

If you encounter problems running ./configure, check config.log to see what went wrong. Error messages like

checking for C compiler default output… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

usually are the result of incompatible or missing binutils or a missing library needed to link the binary.

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 03 Jun 2011 23:38

Its a brick now, Express shipped a new one. Should come tomorrow. May I have a step by step to help prevent another bricking? If I brick is again Im just a dummy and a sadder panda lol. I follwed the advice on the MBL page of downloading only lenny packages, that might have aided in the bricking of the device.

Also I tried to cross compile for it and when I tried to execute them I got the 'Cannot execute binary file" error. The two scenarios might be related heh.
When I tried to cross I used the ./configure —type=powerpc-*-* and make CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xxFP- ARCH=powerpc. Used edlk for this from the "compile modules for My Book Live."

Last edited on 03 Jun 2011 23:55 by sadpanda Show more

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 04 Jun 2011 14:37

MyBookLive:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1671B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release

Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release [79.8kB]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
Fetched 81.5kB in 0s (88.4kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
MyBookLive:~#

Then I use aptitude to try to get debian-keyring but then it flags it as untrusted. Should I download it anyways?

Re: Cant complie from source...

Mieze 04 Jun 2011 15:45

There are two possibilities to deal with this issue: Install the packages debian-keyring and debian-archive-keyring to avoid the warning or simply ignore the warning and install untrusted packages. Of course you will have to override the warning when you install them. Here is what I did:

Misi:~# aptitude install debian-keyring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debian-keyring 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 267 not upgraded.
Need to get 31,1MB of archives. After unpacking 35,8MB will be used.
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  debian-keyring 

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": yes
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main debian-keyring 2010.12.29 [31,1MB]
Fetched 31,1MB in 31s (977kB/s)                                                                                                                          
Wähle vormals abgewähltes Paket debian-keyring.
(Lese Datenbank ... 
dpkg: Warnung: Dateilisten-Datei des Paketes »ramlog« fehlt, nehme an, dass das Paket derzeit keine Dateien installiert hat.

dpkg: Warnung: Dateilisten-Datei des Paketes »libparted0« fehlt, nehme an, dass das Paket derzeit keine Dateien installiert hat.
(Lese Datenbank ... 24014 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacke debian-keyring (aus .../debian-keyring_2010.12.29_all.deb) ...
Richte debian-keyring ein (2010.12.29) ...
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done         

Misi:/DataVolume/shares/Daten/.AppleDB# aptitude install debian-archive-keyring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages will be upgraded:
  debian-archive-keyring 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 266 not upgraded.
Need to get 19,9kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  debian-archive-keyring 

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": yes
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 [19,9kB]
Fetched 19,9kB in 0s (20,8kB/s)          
(Lese Datenbank ... 
dpkg: Warnung: Dateilisten-Datei des Paketes »ramlog« fehlt, nehme an, dass das Paket derzeit keine Dateien installiert hat.

dpkg: Warnung: Dateilisten-Datei des Paketes »libparted0« fehlt, nehme an, dass das Paket derzeit keine Dateien installiert hat.
(Lese Datenbank ... 24025 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 (durch .../debian-archive-keyring_2010.08.28_all.deb) ...
Entpacke Ersatz für debian-archive-keyring ...
Richte debian-archive-keyring ein (2010.08.28) ...
gpg: key F42584E6: "Lenny Stable Release Key <[e-mail]>" not changed
gpg: key 55BE302B: "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny) <[e-mail]>" not changed
gpg: key 6D849617: "Debian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)" not changed
gpg: key B98321F9: public key "Squeeze Stable Release Key <[e-mail]>" imported
gpg: key 473041FA: public key "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <[e-mail]>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 5
gpg:               imported: 2  (RSA: 2)
gpg:              unchanged: 3
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  

Current status: 266 updates [-1].

Misi:~# aptitude update
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1671B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Translation-de
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
Fetched 1671B in 1s (1578B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

You can also ignore the warning and go on installing untrusted packages as I did. Anyway it hasn't affected system stability yet, but your post made me to install them, so this nasty message has disappeared now. Maybe I will write a little tutorial to summarize what I have learned so far.

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 04 Jun 2011 17:18

Thank you so much for your help. Everything is running smoothly right now. Now I can focus on try to cross compile programs(via ./configure —target=) and code (via c++) for it.

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 06 Jun 2011 15:01

Okay I figured out how to cross compile but its missing libnurcures5-dev. This is the message I got:

MyBookLive:/shares/tets/gnuchess-5.08# apt-get --simulate install libncurses5-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.7+20081213-1) but 5.7+20100313-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Right now I'm configured to only download LENNY packages, should I switch to SQUEEZE or is this a no go?

Re: Cant complie from source...

Mieze 06 Jun 2011 17:51

Hello!

Yes, it's save to install libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev from squeeze. Just checked the installed version on my MB Live with dpkg:

Misi:~# dpkg --status libncurses5
Package: libncurses5
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 676
Maintainer: Craig Small <[e-mail]>
Architecture: powerpc
Source: ncurses
Version: 5.7+20100313-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: libgpm2
Description: shared libraries for terminal handling
 This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs
 compiled with ncurses.
Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Misi:~# dpkg --status libncurses5-dev
Package: libncurses5-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 6660
Maintainer: Craig Small <[e-mail]>
Architecture: powerpc
Source: ncurses
Version: 5.7+20100313-5
Replaces: libncurses-dev, ncurses-dev
Provides: libncurses-dev, ncurses-dev
Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.7+20100313-5), ncurses-bin (= 5.7+20100313-5), libc-dev
Conflicts: libncurses-dev, ncurses-dev
Description: developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
 This package contains the header files, static libraries
 and symbolic links that developers using ncurses will need.
 It also includes the libraries' man pages and other documentation.
Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

Mieze

Re: Cant complie from source...

sadpanda 08 Jun 2011 00:41

Thanks again, hope I'm not bothering you.

Re: Cant complie from source...

giko 15 Aug 2011 14:19

I'm stuck at ./configure command. Whatever package I compile, the output of the command I get is:

checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: in `/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.3.3':
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

The setup of my MBL is done as per instructions:
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/setup-development-tools

Please advice,
Thanks in advance,
Gennady

Re: Cant complie from source...

giko 15 Aug 2011 22:09

After I did:

# aptitude install g++-4.2
# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.2 42

it worked.