[SOLVED] Accidentally deleted gawk and now nothing will configure :(

grail · 10-27-2010, 05:42 AM

So unbeknownst to me until today, but apparently all configure scripts rely on some version of awk to create the Makefile when config.status is run.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get gawk reinstalled?

I have compiled one on Ubuntu and copied it to my other machine but when run it throws the error:

Code:

./gawk: no such file or directory

So I am guessing I either need to create a static copy or maybe also copy the libs created from compile with it.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

GrapefruiTgirl · 10-27-2010, 05:50 AM

Which OS did you remove the gawk from? Is there no package manager that can be used to reinstall it?

The error is "file not found", so at this stage of course, missing libraries are not the problem, it's the binary itself. Can you stick a gawk binary into /usr/bin and/or into /bin and see if that helps?

For the record, the gawk package on my Slack box does not bring with it anything that goes in any /lib dir, only binaries in /bin and /usr/libexec/awk. The gawk binary claims dependence on:

Code:

root@reactor: ldd /usr/bin/gawk
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff64dff000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007eff86c72000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007eff869ee000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007eff8666c000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007eff86e76000)
root@reactor:

crts · 10-27-2010, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

The error is "file not found", so at this stage of course, missing libraries are not the problem, it's the binary itself.

Hi,

this is generally true. When a binary a binary is missing a shared library it displays an error like:

Code:

ls: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, there is one exception. If a binary cannot find its linker, then it will throw a simple 'No such file or directory' error. Just like the binary itself were not present. It's really funny when you do 'ls' and are looking at the file at the same time.

So this is what I think *might* be going on:
ldd on my Ubuntu returns:

Code:

# ldd /usr/bin/gawk 
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffe8c6c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f22571be000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2256f3b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2256bb7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f22573e0000)

My guess is, that on the target-system there is no directory /lib64. It is probably NOT a multilib system. It misses the /lib64 directory and the linker might be also named just ld-linux.so.2 (not sure about that).
In this case, creating a symlink /lib64 -> /lib (and also one for the linker) *might* solve the problem. The output of

Code:

ls -l /lib*/ld-*
ldd /path/to/gawk   # the temporary one from ubuntu

could come in handy.
If it works with the symlinks, then recompilation of gawk on the target system should be possible.

grail · 10-27-2010, 09:36 AM

Thanks for the feedback folks. I am not near the culprit at the moment so it will have to wait until tomorrow to try your advice

More background:

I built my own CLFS Pure 64 (hence crts correct about no /lib64)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

Is there no package manager that can be used to reinstall it?

This made me laugh a little, not at you, but the reason for losing gawk was the package manager I have built deleted it

So in answer to your question, not until I fix this problem

I will throw an update in first thing tomorrow after I try the symlinks idea (sounds plausible to me)

Cheers

GrapefruiTgirl · 10-27-2010, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail

This made me laugh a little, not at you, but the reason for losing gawk was the package manager I have built deleted it

lol

Looking forward to the update. Good luck!

crts · 10-27-2010, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail

This made me laugh a little, not at you, but the reason for losing gawk was the package manager I have built deleted it

Oh, such irony...

Quote:

I built my own CLFS Pure 64

Do you still have a copy of your toolchain somewhere? If yes, it should be possible to use the toolchains version of gawk. Temporarily add /tools/bin to your path and rebuild gawk on the CLFS machine.
But since you already have the ubuntu version copied over, could you first try if symlinks might make gawk work again? Would be interesting to know.

grail · 10-27-2010, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Do you still have a copy of your toolchain somewhere?

Wouldn't this have been a lovely thing to still have

BUT .... you will be happy to know that it is all back up and running and it was thanks to adding /lib64 as symlink

My linker was already named the same so didn't have to add one for it.

I have now added a line in when installing gawk to copy it to /tmp until I know it has installed correctly <whew>

Thanks again

crts · 10-27-2010, 07:38 PM

Great it worked out. I was a bit skeptical. Since it compiled against Ubuntu I thought that there might arise some compatibility issues.

Quote:

Wouldn't this have been a lovely thing to still have

Maybe next time