On 06/30/2010 07:37 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have 2 questions about EMC2, I hope that somebody can point me into
> some useful direction.
> 1) Is there a way to update from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 on Lucid?
>
> 2) I have been trying to compile EMC2 on Lucid without any success.
>
> What I did:
> Acquired EMC2 source by executing:
> git clone git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/emc2.git emc2-dev
>
> VERSION file says that I have got source of EMC 2.5~pre.
>
> Then I opened README file and tried to follow instructions:
> cd /home/waterjet/emc2-dev/src
> ./configure --enable-run-in-place
>
> And for last command I get:
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
> Andy suggested this command to get additional packages installed:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot debhelper libpth-dev
> libgtk2.0-dev kernel-wedge tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev bwidget python2.5-dev
> python-tk python-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev
> libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libncurses5-dev libxaw7-dev gettext
> libreadline5-dev lyx texlive-extra-utils imagemagick tetex-bin
> tetex-extra groff qt3-dev-tools
> sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot debhelper libpth-dev
> libgtk2.0-dev kernel-wedge tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev bwidget python2.5-dev
> python-tk python-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev
> libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libncurses5-dev libxaw7-dev gettext
> libreadline5-dev lyx texlive-extra-utils imagemagick tetex-bin
> tetex-extra groff qt3-dev-toolssudo apt-get install build-essential
> fakeroot debhelper libpth-dev
> libgtk2.0-dev kernel-wedge tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev bwidget python2.5-dev
> python-tk python-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev
> libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libncurses5-dev libxaw7-dev gettext
> libreadline5-dev lyx texlive-extra-utils imagemagick tetex-bin
> tetex-extra groff qt3-dev-tools
>
> For several packages I got answer that they do not exist: I remember
> lyx, tetex-extra.
> For several packages I got answer that I should choose another one,
> which is equivalent, for example instead of python2.5-dev I should
> install python-old-doctools, but there were few more.
>
> What am I missing here? I suspect that it is some very basic mistake,
> as I do not yet have any experience with compiling and building
> applications in Linux.
>
> with best regards,
> Viesturs
Viesturs,
Does the configure file actually exist in that directory? If it does,
and the command is failing, you probably need to change the permissions
on the script. "chmod 750 configure" run on the command line in the src
directory if the file exists there will make it executable.
Mark
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