[augeas-devel] Re: augeas compile on solaris failed

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:41 +0200, Dan Bode wrote:
> I finally got around to compiling augeas on Solaris. I wanted to share
> my experience.
> 
> before running the ./configure command, I had to create the following
> symlnks
> 
> #>ln -s /opt/csw/lib/libreadline.so /usr/sfw/include/

I doubt this should go into an include directory.

> #>ln -s /opt/csw/include/readline /usr/sfw/include/
> 
> after adding these symlinks, I was able to run ./configure without
> failure. (I could not get it to run with the argument
> --prefix=/usr/csw/)

The --prefix only changes where files are installed, not where it looks
for includes and/or libraries.

> my solaris box uses gmake and not make, so I added the following:
> 
> ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gmake /usr/sfw/bin/make

Can you rerun make as 'make V=1' ? That should spew out a ton of output,
some of which will hopefully be more helpful.

> I am currently looking at an issue with the make command:
> 
> 
>     Successfully remade target file `wcrtomb.lo'.
>    Finished prerequisites of target file `libgnu.la'.
>   Must remake target `libgnu.la'.
>   CCLD   libgnu.la
> Putting child 0x080bdf90 (libgnu.la) PID 24415 on the chain.
> Live child 0x080bdf90 (libgnu.la) PID 24415
> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> Reaping losing child 0x080bdf90 PID 24415
> Removing child 0x080bdf90 PID 24415 from chain.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/augeas-0.5.3/gnulib/lib'
> gmake[4]: *** [libgnu.la] Error 1
> 
> I am not sure if I can make much more progress on this.
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback.
> 
> Here is some versioning information:
> 
> operatingsystem => Solaris
> operatingsystemrelease => 10_u7
> kernelversion => 5.10
> kernel => SunOS
> hardwareisa => i386
> hardwaremodel => i86pc
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Dan