Spim

I'm trying to compile/install the SPIM emulator app on mandrake, i've tried to follow the relevant readme instructions, but don't seem to be getting anywhere very fast.

Any ideas!!!!!

here's what i've been getting

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[jamie@localhost spim-6.5]$ ./Configure
cc
Check if this machine is big-endian or little-endian.
This may take a few minutes.
I believe this is a little-endian machine.
Looks like a System V universe exists...
Scaning libc
nm: /usr/lib/libc.so: File format not recognized

Checking if libc on this machine contains:
vsprintf: No, I don't think
_doprnt: NO, THIS IS A PROBLEM: NO VSPRINTF AND NO _DOPRNT
SPIM WILL NOT RUN PROPERLY
vfprintf: No, I don't think
_doprnt: NO, THIS IS A PROBLEM: NO VFPRINTF AND NO _DOPRNT
SPIM WILL NOT RUN PROPERLY
strtoul: No, I don't think
strtol: No, I don't think
memcpy: No, I don't think

Checking for /usr/include/termio.h
Yes, it is there
[jamie@localhost spim-6.5]$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jamie/Documents/SPIM/spim-6.5'
flex -I -8 scanner.l
/bin/sh: line 1: flex: command not found
make[1]: *** [lex.yy.c] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jamie/Documents/SPIM/spim-6.5'
make: *** [spim] Error 2

Well, something's wrong with your libc for a start. Secondly, you don't have flex installed, which is what
/bin/sh: line 1: flex: command not found
means. So you'll need to install that. But it probably won't work until you get your libc working, and I don't know what's wrong with that.
Guy

ok, i managed to get flex installed, but how do you deal with the libc. Only thing i can think that of that may have affected libc recently would have been removing emacs(to install xemacs).

Well it says it's an unrecognised file format which sounds pretty bad to me. Try compiling some other programs which you have had success with. If these come up with similar errors then reinstall the libc package from Mandrake. One thing: have you recompiled your kernel recently? If so, did you add support for a.out and elf binaries? I think there's another one too. I'm not sure this will affect anything, but it's something to consider.

How do i go about reinstalling libc???

I would think it would be a package on Mandrake somewhere. Check your CDs or online if that's where you got your dist from