Re: having trouble with ./configure

Ralph Shumaker Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:18:48 -0800

Andrew Lentvorski wrote:

Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I had problems going the cpan2rpm path, but this worked fine. Butnow I have a new problem. I don't know how much I should include, soI will include the whole output. But my untrained eyes don't findany problems until the end.
Welcome to configure hell.  Now you understand those of us who hate it.
# ./configure
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
Wonder of wonders.  It found your gettext.
checking for g++... no
Odd.
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.18... yes
checking libgoffice-0.5... not found
checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (
       libglade-2.0            >= 2.3.6
       gtk+-2.0                >= 2.10.0
) were not met:

No package 'libglade-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
Version of gtk2 needs to be 2.10.0 or greater. Even though your RPMoutput doesn't indicate that, it's likely to be the case.
You need to check the file config.log to see exactly what is bombingand why. Also, you need to play with pkg-config and see what *it*thinks is installed as opposed to what RPM thinks is installed.
We hates configure.

-a

I can see why. I don't know much about what I see in config.log, but itdoes seem to keep trying to use g++ even though it knows that it's notthere. I don't know how to get g++ but here's the contents of the log file:

# cat ./config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by gnumeric configure 1.7.91, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was

 $ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = netblock-68-183-189-11.dslextreme.com
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Thu Nov 1 21:09:24 EDT 2007

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/kerberos/sbin
PATH: /usr/kerberos/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /root/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2242: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2298: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2309: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2352: result: yes
configure:2380: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2419: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2432: checking for gawk
configure:2448: found /bin/gawk
configure:2459: result: gawk
configure:2470: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2491: result: yes

configure:2688: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portionsof Makefiles

configure:2697: result: no
configure:2750: checking for style of include used by make
configure:2778: result: GNU
configure:2848: checking for gcc
configure:2864: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2875: result: gcc
configure:3113: checking for C compiler version
configure:3120: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3123: $? = 0
configure:3130: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux

Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix--enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit--disable-libunwind-exceptions--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada--enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre--enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-cpu=generic--host=i386-redhat-linux

Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)
configure:3133: $? = 0
configure:3140: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:3143: $? = 1
configure:3166: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3193: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3196: $? = 0
configure:3234: result: a.out
configure:3251: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3261: ./a.out
configure:3264: $? = 0
configure:3281: result: yes
configure:3288: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3290: result: no
configure:3293: checking for suffix of executables
configure:3300: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3303: $? = 0
configure:3327: result:
configure:3333: checking for suffix of object files
configure:3359: gcc -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:3362: $? = 0
configure:3385: result: o
configure:3389: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:3418: gcc -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:3424: $? = 0
configure:3441: result: yes
configure:3446: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:3476: gcc -c -g  conftest.c >&5
configure:3482: $? = 0
configure:3581: result: yes
configure:3598: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:3672: gcc  -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:3678: $? = 0
configure:3701: result: none needed
configure:3721: checking dependency style of gcc
configure:3812: result: gcc3
configure:3840: checking for intltool >= 0.29
configure:3847: result: 0.36.1 found
configure:3898: checking for xgettext
configure:3916: found /usr/bin/xgettext
configure:3928: result: /usr/bin/xgettext
configure:3938: checking for msgmerge
configure:3956: found /usr/bin/msgmerge
configure:3968: result: /usr/bin/msgmerge
configure:3978: checking for msgfmt
configure:3996: found /usr/bin/msgfmt
configure:4008: result: /usr/bin/msgfmt
configure:4040: checking for perl
configure:4058: found /usr/bin/perl
configure:4070: result: /usr/bin/perl
configure:4089: checking for XML::Parser
configure:4092: result: ok
configure:4129: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
configure:4135: $? = 0
configure:4256: NOTE: This is a development release
configure:4269: checking build system type
configure:4287: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:4309: checking host system type
configure:4324: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:4347: checking for library containing strerror
configure:4388: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
configure:4394: $? = 0
configure:4422: result: none required
configure:4478: checking for gcc
configure:4505: result: gcc
configure:4743: checking for C compiler version
configure:4750: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:4753: $? = 0
configure:4760: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux

Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)
configure:4763: $? = 0
configure:4770: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:4773: $? = 1
configure:4776: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:4828: result: yes
configure:4833: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:4968: result: yes
configure:4985: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:5088: result: none needed
configure:5108: checking dependency style of gcc
configure:5199: result: gcc3
configure:5218: checking for bison
configure:5248: result: no
configure:5218: checking for byacc
configure:5248: result: no
configure:5261: checking for flex
configure:5291: result: no
configure:5261: checking for lex
configure:5291: result: no
configure:5464: checking whether ln -s works
configure:5468: result: yes
configure:5523: checking for a sed that does not truncate output
configure:5579: result: /bin/sed
configure:5582: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e
configure:5656: result: /bin/grep
configure:5661: checking for egrep
configure:5739: result: /bin/grep -E
configure:5755: checking for ld used by gcc
configure:5822: result: /usr/bin/ld
configure:5831: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld
configure:5846: result: yes
configure:5851: checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files
configure:5858: result: -r
configure:5876: checking for BSD-compatible nm
configure:5925: result: /usr/bin/nm -B
configure:5929: checking how to recognize dependent libraries
configure:6115: result: pass_all
configure:6355: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:6395: gcc -E  conftest.c
configure:6401: $? = 0
configure:6432: gcc -E  conftest.c
conftest.c:10:28: error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
configure:6438: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "gnumeric"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gnumeric"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.7.91"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "gnumeric 1.7.91"