Hi,

The problem isnt building hdf5. And I think Eric talked to the people at SBo cause the link was pointing to a non-existing source, but it was changed, and probably the .SlackBuild file too was updated.

No the problem is compiling mnc2nii. After I've installed the two requirements, NetCDF and HDF5, and tried to build my own .SlackBuild file, I get the error up above. I enabled minc2 in the ./configure section just like it said in the README and INSTALL files, still, I think I'm missing something, cause the compiler is complaining about an undefined constant that "is supposed to" come with the source of mnc2nii.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Dumdadum

ps: I too log into my slack machine from work. I will be working on this build all day probly...

Here is the download page to minc2:

http://minc.sourcearchive.com/downloads/2.0.15/

Here is the web page for other minc2 related stuff, where I didnt find ( yet ) anything helpfull:

http://minc.sourcearchive.com/docume...8c-source.html

If that can help...
Dumdadum

Maybe this will help:

http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/piperma...t/2009-May.txt

http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/piperm...ay/002480.html

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Yes you were right it did help. I subscribed to the mailing list and posted my second question there. After adding the definition for the constant, I ran the script again, and this time I was quick enough to notice an important warning:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-minc2

The ./configure option --enable-minc2 was described in the INSTALL.minc file of the source code. Its weird that I added this option and that ./configure doesnt recognize it. This is the ./configure section of my script:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
--localstatedir=/var \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--includedir=/usr/local/include \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--sbindir=/sbin \
--with-build-path=/usr/local \
--enable-minc2 \
--enable-static \
--disable-shared \
--build=$ARCH-slackware-linux

If anyone can point me to the right direction that would be great.

Cheers,
Dumdadum

You may want to consider using the last stable minc1 version 1.5.1 as it has less extra dependencies(just libtext-format-perl-0.52).

For the newer version use 2.0.18:
compile and install netcdf-3.6.1 first.
run ldconfig
Then compile and install hdf5-1.6.6 (using the later hdf5-1.8.x will not work)
run ldconfig
compile and install minc-2.0.18
run ldconfig
compile and install libtext-format-perl-0.52
compile and install libgetopt-tabular-perl-0.3

You can use src2pkg to build and package all these very handily.
The --enable-minc2 option is deprecated (it's now the default)

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No thanks, my roomate needs version 2, so I will get it working, surely someone else did it.

Ok so I compiled the versions you described of hdf5 and netcdf and it worked. Thing is I never found anything on the web for libtext and libgetopt. You have a link for those?

Yeah I used src2pkg. Still, I would like one day to do my own building scripts. I find src2pkg is like cheating (= hehehe A real slacker should be able to do a script on his own from scratch. Still, thanks for the tip, cause it worked with src2pkg. Thanks also for letting me know --enable-minc2 is deprecated.

Cheers,
Dumdadum

Just serach for the perl stuff together with the word 'debian' and you'll find the sources -again src2pkg builds them fine. Learn to be a whiz at modifying src2pkg build scripts, when needed, and you'll have no need to be embarrased about using it... Besides, building a good package entails a lot more than just being able to write a good build script.