In my configure.ac, I want to check in this perl module exiftool (http://search.cpan.org/~exiftool/Image-ExifTool-10.20/lib/Image/ExifTool.pod) exists as:
AX_PROG_PERL_MODULES( Image::ExifTool, ,)
But this is giving error:
./configure: line 4071: syntax error near unexpected token `Image::ExifTool,'
./configure: line 4071: `AX_PROG_PERL_MODULES( Image::ExifTool, ,)'
What is going wrong here?
For reference, here is my complete configure.ac
AC_INIT([mkbib], [0.1],[],[mkbib])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9.6 dist-bzip2 subdir-objects])
AM_PATH_PYTHON([3.0])
AM_PATH_GTK_3_0([3.4.0],,AC_MSG_ERROR([Gtk+ 3.0.0 or higher required.]))
AX_PROG_PERL_MODULES( Image::ExifTool, ,)
GLIB_GSETTINGS
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
data/Makefile
data/mkbib.desktop
data/icons/Makefile
data/icons/hicolor/Makefile
data/icons/hicolor/48x48/Makefile
data/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/Makefile
data/icons/hicolor/scalable/Makefile
data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/Makefile
data/ui/Makefile
])
AC_OUTPUT
You don't have a definition of AX_PROG_PERL_MODULES in your project. This comes from the Autoconf archive, rather than base autoconf (thus the AX_ prefix.) You probably want to download the .m4 (and any of its dependencies) and add it to your m4/ directory, then run something along the lines of autoreconf -is -I m4.
You can dig further into the external macro usage on my Autotools MYthbuster if you're interested, but the gist of it is that.
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I'm trying to compile this project from DTU. This project requires that PETSc be installed.
I have installed PETSc to /Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/
I have extracted the zip from GitHub to /Users/hornymoose/dtu
The DTU project's makefile has the following lines:
include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/variables
include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/rules
include ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/test
In these lines, {PETSC_DIR} is to be substituted with the user's PETSc installation directory. Thus, I changed these lines to:
include $/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/variables
include $/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/rules
include $/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/test
To compile the code, I write make topopt in Terminal. Doing so yields:
makefile:13: Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/variables: No such file or directory
makefile:14: Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/rules: No such file or directory
makefile:15: Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/test: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `Users/jhutopopt/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/test'. Stop.
I have gone back and manually checked that Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/variables, ...rules, and ...test definitely exist and do not have errors.
Why am I receiving this error? Am I indicating the directory incorrectly in my makefile? Is the syntax in the makefile incorrect?
I'm sure there is a simple solution, I'm just very new to working with Terminal in MacOS. Thank you in advance!
There is a $ in the paths:
include $/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/variables
^
This causes the / to be treated as a variable, and expanded to nothing because was never set. Run make with option --warn-undefined-variables to get a warning on that sort of thing. Perhaps already obvious at this point, but the correct line would be:
include /Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3/lib/petsc/conf/variables
Rather than manually substituting the PETSC_DIR in the makefile you can provide it through an environment variable (assuming PETSc makefiles aren't bad):
export PETSC_DIR=/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3
make topopt
...or:
PETSC_DIR=/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3 make topopt
...or pass its value to the make invocation:
make topopt PETSC_DIR=/Users/hornymoose/petsc-3.13.3
I'm trying to port libisofs to Windows. My environment is MSYS2 with mingw-w64-i686 toolchain installed.
I've used gnulib for missing headers with
gnulib-tool --import command:
$ ../gnulib/gnulib-tool --import fnmatch
I've done all steps in instruction:
Don't forget to
- add "lib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
- mention "lib" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am,
- mention "-I m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
- mention "m4/gnulib-cache.m4" in EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am,
- invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
- invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
Altough, there was no AC_PROG_CC in configure.ac, so I've added gl_EARLY after AM_PROG_CC_C_O
And there was no SUBDIRS variable in Makefile.am so I've added it manually at the bottom, as so:
SUBDIRS = lib
All configurations I've made as so:
autoreconf -i
automake --add-missing
autoconf
./configure
After running make I recieve error:
hard-locale.c:19:10: fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory
#include <config.h>
As I understand that file must be created by ./configure, but I don't understand why compiler doesn't find it.
configure.ac: https://pastebin.com/JbWRqjEv
Makefile.am: https://pastebin.com/V6ZBq8Vd
All outputs: https://pastebin.com/WFu5aJU7
Gnulib assumes that your configure.ac file contains
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
Without it, every compiler command invocation is more than 1000 characters long, due to the many -D options; this is not practical for development.
I am trying to include MPI compiler to my makefile. The makefile is already prepared such that I only need to include the address of the MPI compiler in a a separate env file. However doing so does not work. I can get the cpp file to run manually by typing:
mpicxx Demo_00.cpp -o aprogram
./aprogram
I test where the mpi compiler is located using:
which mpicxx
/usr/bin/mpicxx
In the env file the corresponding line is:
MPICXX=/usr/bin/mpicxx
However, when I try to 'make' he cpp file I get the following error:
make Demo_00
g++ Demo_00.cpp -o Demo_00
Demo_00.cpp:2:17: fatal error: mpi.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Demo_00] Error 1
The cpp file is in the same folder as the env file and the makefile.
I am not quite sure how to identify the error.
Thank you for your help,
Tartaglia
If you want to change the name of the C++ compiler, you have to change the variable CXX. That's the default variable make uses when it wants to compile C++ code.
This line in your log file:
g++ Demo_00.cpp -o Demo_00
says that you are using g++ compiler instead of mpixx.
Usually in makefiles compiler definition is at the beginnig of the file and looks like this:
CC=g++
just change it to mpixx
CC=mpixx
Thank you all for your responses, I took a closer look into the makefile I thought I was using and it turns out, as you have already suggested, I was not using it at all. The makefile was only able to execute one specific cpp file with one specific name. So whenever I typed in make *.cpp I was using the standard make as you already pointed out.
Thanks again for your help.
So here's the thing.
I'm trying to build pngwriter. In the makefile there's a line saying:
include make.include
The file make.include has the function to specify the platform used via a symlink, it has just one line:
make.include.linux
(there's a file in the same directory called make.include.linux which has some necessary settings. And by the way, I'm doing this on Windows with MinGW)
in the msys shell, when I do make, it says:
make.include:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
I've looked at other missing separator posts and they're about spaces/tabs, which I think it's not the case here. I've searched about makefiles, symlinks, separators and could solve it.
Please help!
EDIT! OK, so make.include.linux isn't a command, it's a file whose contents need to be included in the original makefile. The make.include should be, as I read, a symlink to make.include.linux.
What you have there isn't valid make syntax. Commands can only be run as part of a target recipe. In your case it seems like what you want is:
all:
make.include.linux
Assuming that make.include.linux is a command, and not something else. Make sure the indentation is a tab character.
I created a Makefile.in where I read the content out of a file and pass it to CFLAGS. Calling ./configure ... the Makefile will be generated an all works well.
Makefile.in:
...
MY_REVISION_FILE=my-revision.txt
MY_REVISION=$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))
AM_CFLAGS = -I$(EXTRAS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir) -DMY_REVISION=$(MY_REVISION)
...
The problem arises once I moved the Makefile.in code into Makefile.am to allow the auto generation of Makefile.in. There calling autoreconf -i --force stops with the following error:
server/Makefile.am:9: cat $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
server/Makefile.am:9: (probably a GNU make extension)
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
This problem hunts me now since quite some time. I searched everywhere but did not find anything that could help me finding a solution for that. In short, the only thing I need is a way to get an uninterpreted text such as "$(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))" copied from Makefile.am to Makefile.in
Any idea?
Thanks,
Oliver
As it says, the problem is you're using a GNUism in your Makefile.am, when it's only meant to contain portable Makefile code.
Either rewrite your code so it's portable (you should use AM_CPPFLAGS because you're passing flags to the preprocessor, not the compiler):
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(EXTRAS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir) -DMY_REVISION=`cat $(top_srcdir)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE)`
If you don't want to invoke cat on every compile, you could find the value in configure.ac and either AC_SUBST it into Makefile or AC_DEFINE it so it goes into config.h.
Or if you want to be non-portable (ಠ_ಠ), you can take -Werror out of your AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE or AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, or add -Wno-portability.
After long testing back and forth I decided to use AC_SUBST.
My solution might not be the cleanest but it works for me.
In configure.ac I added the following line
AC_SUBST([DOLLAR_SIGN],[$])
In the Makefile.am I changed my previous line into
MY_REVISION=#DOLLAR_SIGN#(shell cat $(SRC_DIR)/$(MY_REVISION_FILE))
And it works.
Again, thanks for your help.