On 10/11/2013 06:00 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:11:59AM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote:
>> On 10/10/2013 11:35 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:09:09PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm trying to compile Squid 3.3.9 from Source and I keep getting the
>>>> error
>>>>
>>>> "checking size of size_t ... configure error in '/sources/squid-3.3.9'
>>>>
>>>> Configure error: cannot compute size of (size_t).
>>>>
>>>> here is the top of my config.log I have the whole thing, its just huge
>>>> and I also piped the output of the ./configure command if something in
>>>> it will be a clue.
>>>>
>>> What you probably want is the _last_ error in config.log. More
>>> specifically, look at config.log in 'vim' or 'less' (you are on
>>> ubuntu, so perhaps you don't have vim installed) and search for
>>> 'cannot compute size' i.e.
>>>
>>> /cannot\ compute\ size
>>> - type it just like that, hopefully there is only one such report,
>>> but if there is more than one hit '/' again to find the next one.
>>>
>>> My guess is that you are missing some of the infrastructure.
>>> Google thinks that autotools might be needed for this - perhaps
>>> 'apt-get install build-essential' will do the necessary, not sure.
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
>>>> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
>>>> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>>>>
>>>> It was created by Squid Web Proxy configure 3.3.9, which was
>>>> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68. Invocation command line was
>>>>
>>>> $ ./configure
>>>>
>>>> ## --------- ##
>>>> ## Platform. ##
>>>> ## --------- ##
>>>>
>>>> hostname = build-pc
>>>> uname -m = x86_64
>>>> uname -r = 3.8.0-31-generic
>>>> uname -s = Linux
>>>> uname -v = #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:03:44 UTC 2013
>>>>
>>> Please note that we aren't set up to assist people running other
>>> distributions, so I'm assuming that you are trying this as a first
>>> step to see if you like building from source, and that you will come
>>> over to the light side in due course ;-)
>>>
>>> Also, ubuntu are still supporting 3.8 kernels, but 3.8.0-31 is well
>>> out of date, their latest is 3.8.13.11 ( I noticed the patches on
>>> lkml a few hours ago ).
>>>
>>> ĸen
>> I'm actually trying to build it on a LFS box. I tried it in the chroot
>> environment. And it didn't work. (Thats what the Configure.log is from)
>> then I booted into LFS, it didn't work. I did however try it on the
>> Host system that I originally made LFS on and it did work. If at
>> possible I try to add packages to my LFS from the CHROOT environment
>> simply because I have access to web on the same computer and I can copy
>> and past the commands instead of typing them when following the BLFS
>> book. I love LFS and BLFS, just wish you guys had EVERY possible
>> package in there.
>>
> Too few people to build every package and to keep them up to date.
>
> You do need to look for "cannot compute size" message(s) as I said
> originally, and concentrate on the last of them, because that is
> where configure decided your LFS system is broken. There are
> several things which can cause that breakage - among them are code
> which gcc now rejects, insane CFLAGS, and systems that really are
> broken (lost headers). It is the error messages from trying to run
> the code fragments which will point to the problem.
>
> None of the earlier error messages are interesting - all configure
> scripts check for system features by making fragmentary programs,
> like this one does at line 6451 -
>> configure:6451: checking if g++ supports C++0x features without
>> additional flags
>> configure:6488: g++ -c -g -O2 conftest.cpp >&5
>> conftest.cpp:15:21: error: expected identifier before 'sizeof'
>> static_assert(sizeof(int) <= sizeof(T), "not big enough");
>> ^
> And that test can be expected to fail on some systems.
>
>> Here is the last little bit of the configure.log
>>
>> #define HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_GMTOFF 1
>> #define HAVE_STRUCT_MALLINFO 1
>> #define HAVE_STRUCT_RUSAGE 1
>> #define HAVE_STRUCT_IPHDR_IP_HL 1
>> #define SIZEOF_VOID_P 0
>> #define SIZEOF_INT64_T 0
>> #define SIZEOF_LONG 0
>>
>> configure: exit 77
>>
> Again, not interesting in the context of a failed configure - it is
> reporting how things have been set. These settings would determine
> how it will set up the Makefile(s).
>
> Also, which LFS version ? I see that Arch use the following:
> # gcc 4.6 doesn't support -fhuge-objects.
> sed '/^ HUGE_OBJECT_FLAG=/ s/"-fhuge-objects"//' -i configure
>
> that was pasted from
> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/squid
>
> And the latest version is 3.4.0.2 - looks as if squid is like
> several other projects, with multiple supported versions. If your
> compiler is too new (that Arch sed implies this) then the newer
> series might be easier.
>
> OTOH, fedora are using 3.3.9 and their most likely change is to
> patch src/ssl/support.cc so it obviously configures for them, albeit
> with a lot of other patches.
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/squid.git/tree/
>
> ĸen
Did a search for those items you asked and this is what it comes up
with. I copied from what looked like the last good entry above it to
where it started talking about cached variables. Hopefully something
useful in there?
#include <stdio.h>
| #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
| # include <sys/types.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
| # include <sys/stat.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef STDC_HEADERS
| # include <stdlib.h>
| # include <stddef.h>
| #else
| # ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
| # include <stdlib.h>
| # endif
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
| # if !defined STDC_HEADERS && defined HAVE_MEMORY_H
| # include <memory.h>
| # endif
| # include <string.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
| # include <strings.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_INTTYPES_H
| # include <inttypes.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
| # include <stdint.h>
| #endif
| #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
| # include <unistd.h>
| #endif
| static long int longval () { return (long int) (sizeof (size_t)); }
| static unsigned long int ulongval () { return (long int) (sizeof
(size_t)); }
| #include <stdio.h>
| #include <stdlib.h>
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w");
| if (! f)
| return 1;
| if (((long int) (sizeof (size_t))) < 0)
| {
| long int i = longval ();
| if (i != ((long int) (sizeof (size_t))))
| return 1;
| fprintf (f, "%ld", i);
| }
| else
| {
| unsigned long int i = ulongval ();
| if (i != ((long int) (sizeof (size_t))))
| return 1;
| fprintf (f, "%lu", i);
| }
| /* Do not output a trailing newline, as this causes \r\n confusion
| on some platforms. */
| return ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0;
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:25923: error: in `/sources/squid-3.3.9':
configure:25925: error: cannot compute sizeof (size_t)
See `config.log' for more details
## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##
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