Why am I getting this aclocal error? - compilation

I'm trying to compile libbsd from source on Ubuntu 13.04. I'm using a toolchain to cross-compile, but automake is on the local machine. I have aclocal-1.13 in the PATH and everything, but I'm still getting this error. I've tried looking them up but can't get any lead. What's going on here?
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config.status: executing libtool commands
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .. && /bin/bash /home/me/libbsd/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.13 -I m4
error: cannot get project version.
configure.ac:9: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/init.m4:23: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:9: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [../aclocal.m4] Error 1
Any help is greatly appreciated.

The error here is configure.ac:9: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments.
You are getting this error because on line 9 of your configure.ac you are not passing package and version arguments to AC_INIT.
The exact information can be found here: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Public-Macros
Namely,
If your configure.ac has:
AC_INIT([src/foo.c])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([mumble], [1.5])
You should correct it as follows:
AC_INIT([mumble], [1.5])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/foo.c])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
Although the other notes around it are important too imho.

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error: /NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples$ make CUDA-9.1_Samples$ make CUDA-9.2_Samples$ make CUDA-9.3_Samples$ make

I've had CUDA Toolkit 9.0 correctly installed on Ubuntu 16.04 with the package manager-based method since both the two commands
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
nvcc -V
returne the right infomation. However, it fails to make correctly when I tried to compile the official example NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples.
io#msi:~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples$ make
The main output is
/usr/bin/ld: can't find -lcudart
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:334: recipe for target 'simpleMPI' failed
make[1]: *** [simpleMPI] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/io/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples/0_Simple/simpleMPI'
Makefile:52: recipe for target '0_Simple/simpleMPI/Makefile.ph_build' failed
make: *** [0_Simple/simpleMPI/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2
can anyone give me a hand? Thank you.
I think I've solved this problem. As I mentioned in the question, I've had CUDA Toolkit correctly installed in my computer, but it fails when execute
io#msi:~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples$ make
However, the following two commands
$ ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery/deviceQuery
$ ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples/1_Utilities/bandwidthTest/bandwidthTest
gives correct response "Result = pass". It's ok to ignore the "make error" listed above- I think.

Using mingw-w64 and ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static, make fails and Makefile CC variable looks wrong

I am new to compiling.
I am trying to compile iperf3 for Windows 10 because there is no official Windows distribution of iperf3 and for the learning experience. I am trying to do so on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux feature via Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, also for the learning experience.
I installed mingw-w64, which should give me the proper compiler and environment necessary for cross-compiling:
sudo apt-get install mingw-w64
This put two directories into my /usr directory:
i686-w64-mingw32
x86_64-w64-mingw32
It also put a bunch of things that look like compilers into /usr/bin.
I unzipped the .tar.gz file from iperf3 and navigated into it. Then, I run ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static and it completes without errors.
I note that the output of the command has a worrisome line: checking for i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc... no
I note that the Makefile's CC variable is set to gcc, which doesn't sound like the proper compiler.
Then, I run make. It fails with errors:
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [iperf3] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snip/iperf3/iperf-3.1.4/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snip/iperf3/iperf-3.1.4/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I also see the line: libtool: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-w64-mingw32.static shared libraries; building static only
I think that the ./configure is not working correctly since it appears to have not found the right compiler for my --host argument and put it in the Makefile.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
I changed the command to ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 per comments and it completes without error. But no makefile is created so make yields make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
What am I doing wrong, now?
EDIT 2:
Looks like the ./configure actually is failing. Last line of its output is nanosleep() required for timing operations., which seems to mean that its missing a library for nanosleep.
How do I get nanosleep?
mingw doesn't support nanosleep. So programs using it cannot be compiled using mingw-w64.

DSO missing from command line Compiling TrueCrypt

I've been trying to compile truecrypt 7.1a on Debian Jessie 8.1.0 AMD64 for the past two days now. I have wxGTK2.8.12 source because Debian Jessie only have v3.0 packages. That's a problem because wxwidgets3.0 has protected wxstandardpaths so you have to use wxstandardpaths::get and truecrypt uses wxstandardpaths in application.cpp for example and it would return an error while compiling.
I'm not sure how to fix that so I went to option 2 compile wxgtk2.8.12 source using the truecrypt compile option # make WX_ROOT=/usr/src/truecrypt-7.1a-source/wxGTK-2.8.12 wxbuild. That completes then I do # make WXSTATIC=1 and I run into this error below. Even if I compile and install wxwidgets-2.8.12 myself I get this error. Maybe it's a x11lib issue?
^
Linking truecrypt
/usr/bin/ld:
/usr/src/truecrypt-7.1a-source/wxrelease/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.a(corelib_utilsx11.o): undefined reference to symbol 'XGetWindowAttributes'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO
missing from command line collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Main.make:107: recipe for target 'truecrypt' failed make[1]: ***
[truecrypt] Error 1 Makefile:268: recipe for target 'all' failed make:
*** [all] Error 2

scalpel - error when running ./configure

I've downloaded scalpel from github and ran
./configure
but I get the following error:
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in
I've no idea what this means, I am missing some dependency or something?
Run ./bootstrap first. We just removed the configure script. It was checked in by mistake.
See also: https://github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel/issues/2

'rbenv install 2.0.0-p247' fails

i already discussed this issue with the maintainer of ruby-build and followed his advice by googling for similar errors. i found similar ones but they do not seem to match my specific problem:
i'm trying to install ruby with rbenv install 2.0.0-p247 (using the ruby-build plugin) on archlinux – but the command fails.
here the last 10 log lines:
rbconfig.rb updated
generating enc.mk
compiling dln.c
compiling encoding.c
generating prelude.c
compiling prelude.c
linking static-library libruby-static.a
verifying static-library libruby-static.a
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libruby-static.a] Error 1
i would appreciate any hints on this problem – thanks!
To find out what's wrong here, the best bet is to run the Ruby installation yourself to see exactly what's amiss. ruby-build typically downloads and extracts Ruby in /tmp (it should be the same path where it also saves the log file of the failed install).
Go to that directory and run:
$ ./configure
$ make
To see if you get the same error. If you do, then try to re-run the command that failed again. In your case this is probably:
$ ranlib libruby-static.a
To see why it fails.

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