I am trying to compile an open source program on Mac OSX and getting stuck trying to get the build configured. I have autoconf version 2.63 installed but trying to do reconfigure I get this error "aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61." and "you should regenerate the build system entirely".
I researched this as best I could and most seemed to imply automake should be able to regenerate itself using the autoreconf command. Autoreconf fails as well with the exact same message.
Things I've tried: remaking and reinstalling the autoconf package, remaking and reinstalling the m4 package, running the above commands as root instead of as a user.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
- Mike
Look for script like autogen.sh, they usually contain the right order of tools to run.
In this case the problem seems to be aclocal
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The problem ultimately seems to be with m4. Error is autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4
When I run "which m4" I get /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4
However, any command I try to run with m4 like "m4 --version" I get the following:
Abort trap: 6
I can't find a good explanation of that error, but I'm guessing something is corrupted with m4, but I can't figure out how to fix this on a Mac. Do I just download a newer version and run configure, make and make install? Just a little nervous since I have somewhat limit Mac experience.
I've fixed similar issue by executing brew reinstall m4.
In addition to a "brew (re)install m4", I had to temporarily remove "/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin" from my PATH. After that this worked for me.
When trying to install pkg-config on a brand new install of 10.8.5 i got a ./configure: no such file or directory.
first I downloaded the source with git
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config
then I switched to the directory
cd /Users/nah/Desktop/pkg-config
when I run ls I can see the configure file but when I run
./configure --with-internal-glib
I get ./configure: no such file or directory. Even though I see the file in the pkg-config directory.
When I searched for answers online The two i saw were are you in the correct directory which i clearly am, and the second answer i saw was to use homebrew or Macports. I know homebrew and macports will work but that doesn't really answer the question it's sort of a work around. I than realized that the configure file wasn't executable so I ran chmod on it to make it executable but I get the same thing. The other thing I thought of was the configure file is configure.ac , a quick glance at a bunch of other source files on my computer and they all have configure files with no .ac.
I also tried dragging the executable configure file to terminal to run it and I got
line 1: syntax error near unexpected token [2.62}
/Users/nah/pkg-config/configure.ac: line 1: 'AC_PREREQ([2.62])'
do you think there's a problem with the configure script for Mountain lion, i did this on snow leopard about a month ago with no problems.
so in conclusion, i can't install pkg-config using normal ./configure; make; make install;
And would like to know way to solve problem with out homebrew or Macports work around.
When I run rvm install ruby-1.9.3, I get this error message when configuring
Error running ' ./configure --prefix=/Users/robbor911/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with-libyaml --with-opt-dir=/Users/robbor911/.rvm/usr ', please read /Users/robbor911/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p125/configure.log
There has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation.
All posts on this issue so far tell users to download XCode and install it, but I have it installed-- it even runs successfully.
From what I've gather, my problem has something to do with the terminal unable to locate the compiler's necessary for the download.
I even managed to locate the compilers at Xcode/Contents/Developer/usr/bin and Xode/Contents/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin
Does anyone know why, when I installed XCode, my compilers weren't set up properly or how I can manually correct this issue?
I just ran across this issue the other day. The way I was able to get it running:
1) I downloaded and installed this package from Github.
2) ran rvm get head && rvm reload && rvm reinstall 1.9.3
Worked for me. Running OS Lion 10.7
Xcode 4.3 no longer installs the command-line tools by default. You can install them from the Downloads pane in Xcode's preferences.
I am trying to install gcc 4.6 (mainly for having C++0x better supported) in my ubuntu 9.10 (via virtualbox). I referred to previous questions, but I am getting a different error.
I am referring this link for the installation. Now, I have done till the ./gcc-xx/configure ... step. Though it was giving some flex package related error. Mostly due to that make is also failing with below errors:
build/gengtype.o: In function
adjust_field_rtx_def':
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:978:
undefined reference tolexer_line'
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:1032:
undefined reference to lexer_line'
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:1042:
undefined reference tolexer_line' ...............
Now this is giving me a hard time figuring it out because I have already flex/bison latest versions installed. I searched over internet for 2 days almost but no luck. Any help would be really appreciated. Also note that, I already have gcc 4.4 installed in /usr/bin/gcc and I have unzipped the gcc 4.6 tar in my home directory local folder.
[Note: I am also ok with installing ubuntu 11.10 too (which has gcc 4.6) as last resort. But I don't know if its .iso image is available.]
I got this fixed. I followed following procedure:
[Note: run all the commands with sudo, if you are not login as root. e.g. sudo ls -ltr; sudo make install;
As mentioned in the link in my
question, download the gcc4.6...tar
file in a temporary place
Now find the place where current
gcc is stored. e.g. My earlier
gcc4.4 was stored in
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu. Which
has a folder called 4.4, 4.4.1
Create a folder named 4.6 (or
4.6.1/2/3 etc.) and put that
.tar file inside it. Untar the
file as shown in link.
Follow all the procedure as per the
link. Use nohup <command> & to
track the logs. i.e. nohup make
clean all & followed by tail -f
nohup.out
If some error comes, it means some
package is missing. Mostly those
package will be present in your
current gcc version. You can
install them there itself. For
example, in my case zlib was
missing. I ran sudo apt-get install
zlib1g-dev libssl-dev and it worked
fine. Otherwise download from internet and install it.
Once your gcc is installed, you
can simply check it using type
gcc-4.6. In my case it showed that
it's stored as
/usr/local/bin/g++-4.6.
Either you can use the same path to
compile or you can put an alias in
your bash/tcsh/ksh. e.g.
/usr/local/bin/g++-4.6 -std=c++0x
-Wall test.cpp
FWIW Debian testing and unstable have gcc-4.6 as a standard package. So you can simply install that distro inside of virtualbox or, as I've done on my Ubuntu 11.04 server at home, via kvm. In the past, I also used to use dchroot build environments.
There may also be prepackaged gcc-4.6 binaries at launchpad.
Hi i downloaded souce for unix version 6, i want to study it and test it. I am running Snow Leopard on a macbook pro.
1)Is there a way to compile it in mac. If i comile using make or gmake i am getting the following error.
*** Error: Couldn't find an i386-*-elf version of GCC/binutils.
*** Is the directory with i386-jos-elf-gcc in your PATH?
*** If your i386-*-elf toolchain is installed with a command
*** prefix other than 'i386-jos-elf-', set your GCCPREFIX
*** environment variable to that prefix and run 'make' again.
*** To turn off this error, run 'gmake GCCPREFIX= ...'.
2)I also want to run it in a virtual machine,I have VMWare installed on my machine. I don't know how to do that.
Download tarballs for gcc and binutils, expand them, then:
$ cd binutils-2.15
$ ./configure --target=i386-jos-elf
$ make
$ make install
$ cd ../gcc-3.4.1
$ ./configure --target=i386-jos-elf
$ make
$ make install
You will of course need to update the paths. (I got these instructions from MIT's OpenCourseWare.)
You'll have to go through the process of creating a new virtual machine and formatting and installing the OS onto its disk. I've used VirtualBox with some success, but I have no experience with VMWare; you're on your own there.
You might look into macports.org. It has several packages that look useful, notably "i386-elf-binutils". It installs into /opt/local/*, so you may need to make sure /opt/local/bin/ is in your path. (Although I believe it takes care of that by default.)
EDIT: Or maybe not. After a little more research, I wonder if these instructions and downloads are what you're looking for.
EDIT again: Corrected the download link. Sorry about that!
The build system you are using seems to require an ELF tool chain (used by Linux).
You could try to figure out if that can be changed, but since you have VMWare, try to compile it under a virtualized Linux (minimal Debian is quite light-weight).
As an alternative you may compile bournesh on Mac OS X.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bournesh/