Hi Barry, In fact, the directory /home/christian/demo/tools/irstlm/lib/i686 didn't exist, but /home/christian/demo/tools/irstlm/lib/i386-redhat-linux-gnu did, and it contained libirstlm.a. After writing ln -s i386-redhat-linux-gnu i686, everything worked. So in my case the softlinking had to be done under lib/ and not under bin/, as indicated by the instructions.
Thanks a lot! Kind regards, Christian On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Barry Haddow <bhad...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Christian > > I don't think the build problem is connected with the tcl.h problem. > > The moses build is not finding the irstlm library, and it is looking in > this > directory. > /home/christian/demo/tools/irstlm/lib/i686 > Can you check if libirstlm.a is in there? If not then you have a problem > with > your irstlm build. > > Unfortunately the tutorial that you are working from is out-of-date, and > refers to an old version of irstlm. If you're using a recent version of > moses, then use the most recent irstlm. I don't think you have to do the > 'ln' > any more. > > Also, you probably don't need both irstlm and srilm, as they both do the > same > thing. > > best regards > Barry > > On Monday 18 October 2010 08:34, Christian Skaug wrote: > > Dear Moses users, > > > > I have a small bilingual corpus, i.e. some tens of thousands of pairs of > > phrases, in a quite rare language combination and I would like to see if > > this is enough to provide a statistically based translation that is > > superior to Google's, also considering that Google appears to use English > > as an intermediate language, with not-so-good- results. > > > > So I have tried to install Moses on a local Dell computer with Linux and > > bash following the instructions given here: > > http://www.statmt.org/moses_steps.html > > > > Everything goes well until I try "make World", which interrupts because > > tcl.h cannot be found. Searching through old e-mail from other Moses > > subscribers it appears that a trick to get around this difficulty is to > > insert NO_TCL=X in Makefile.machine.i686, considering that the compiler > > appears to look there. In this way I'm able to finish compiling SRILM and > I > > continue with make all, which terminates OK. > > > > IRSTLM also installs just fine, but I'm in doubt as to this instruction: > > ln -s i686-redhat-linux-gnu i686 > > > > On my system, installing and compiling IRSTLM has led to the creation of > a > > directory called i386-redhat-linux-gnu under bin/, so it appears that > it's > > been identified as both i686 and i386. I actually have no idea what it > > really is. > > > > So I try to write ln -s i386-redhat-linux-gnu i686 and go on to install > and > > compile Moses, which goes just fine for a long time until make -j 2 > > interrupts with these messages: > > > > g++ -g -O2 -o query ngram_query.o > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/srilm/lib/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/srilm/flm/obj/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/irstlm/lib/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/moses/kenlm -loolm -ldstruct -lmisc -lflm > > -lirstlm -lkenlm -lz > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lirstlm > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[2]: *** [query] Error 1 > > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > g++ -g -O2 -o build_binary ngram_build_binary.o > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/srilm/lib/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/srilm/flm/obj/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/irstlm/lib/i686 > > -L/home/christian/demo/tools/moses/kenlm -loolm -ldstruct -lmisc -lflm > > -lirstlm -lkenlm -lz > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lirstlm > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[2]: *** [build_binary] Error 1 > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/christian/demo/tools/moses/kenlm' > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/christian/demo/tools/moses' > > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > > Which makes me think that I made a mistake with that ln command, but I > > don't know what to try next. Or maybe there's another problem. And > perhaps > > by-passing that tcl.h problem would create other problems further down > the > > road. > > > > If anyone has pointers to helpful information or suggestions as to how to > > proceed, I'd be very grateful. > > > > Kind regards, > > Christian Skaug > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >
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