Compiling DSLinux: automake 1.4 is needed

Ryland Taylor-Almanza · 05-22-2010, 02:35 PM

Hi, I was trying to compile dslinux. After downloading the source and the pre-built toolchain I did what the wiki said after "make menuconfig", and Only customized one thing, which was changing the font size to the 6x6(yes, I excluded the default 4x4 font) then when I typed make, after going through the normal process for a while, I get this:

Code:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/cmatrix'
make -C src
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/cmatrix/src'
cd . && /home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/cmatrix/src/missing automake-1.4 --gnu Makefile
WARNING: `automake-1.4' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
         system.  You might have modified some files without having the
         proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README' file,
         it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
         this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
         some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.4' program.
make[3]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/cmatrix/src'
make[2]: *** [.compiled] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/cmatrix'
make[1]: *** [cmatrix] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 1

After getting that, I installed automake1.4, and still got the same error. Has anyone had this problem before?

knudfl · 05-22-2010, 04:30 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Probably delete config.cache + config.status ...

.. and then run ./configure again.
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Ryland Taylor-Almanza · 05-22-2010, 10:29 PM

Thanks for replying,
The dslinux didn't say anything about running configure scripts in subdirectories, It just said to run make from the toplevel. so anyway, I went to the cmatrix directory(where it gave me the error) and ran ./configure, and then ran make from the toplevel again and It worked but then I got a different error later. So i did the same thing again, and it got way way farther. but then, I got another error, and I tried the same thing, and this time it didn't work. so here's the new error:

Code:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc'
make -C src
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src'
make  all-recursive
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src'
Making all in src
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src/src'
gcc  -g -O2   -o ncmpc  libmpdclient.o main.o mpdclient.o options.o conf.o command.o screen.o screen_utils.o screen_play.o screen_file.o screen_search.o screen_help.o screen_keydef.o screen_clock.o list_window.o colors.o support.o wreadln.o strfsong.o utils.o  -lglib-2.0   -lncurses -liconv -lintl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [ncmpc] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src/src'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc/src'
make[2]: *** [.compiled] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user/ncmpc'
make[1]: *** [ncmpc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ryland/dslinux/trunk/user'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 1

I tried deleting config.cache and config.status, and then running ./configure again and it still didn't work

knudfl · 05-23-2010, 12:25 AM

Sorry, I wasn't that alert, looked at the title line ... ...
"" Compiling DSLinux: automake 1.4 is needed ""
... and DSL is something else, very different from dslinux.

I have downloaded this :
svn checkout http://svn.dslinux.in-berlin.de/svn/trunk/ dslinux
.. and will have a look at it later.

This is recommended, to have a backup :
tar -cf dslinux-SVN.rev.2447.tar dslinux/

Also :
'svn' may have an update function to revert your new configuration
back to the original ?

Please tell, which Linux, you are using for the 'dslinux' build.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Ask_a_Question
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Ryland Taylor-Almanza · 05-23-2010, 01:02 AM

sorry, before I posted a thread, I realized that people may confuse dslinux with damn small linux, but I forgot to put that in when I was writing the post.

. Anyways, I am using ubuntu to compile dslinux.

knudfl · 05-23-2010, 03:33 AM

Which version of Ubuntu ? ?

Like : Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

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Ryland Taylor-Almanza · 05-23-2010, 11:13 AM

Yeah, I'm using lucid

knudfl · 05-25-2010, 12:19 PM

Which build are you using ?

From 'make config' :

Quote:

* are not sure what type of build you want.
*
(DLDI, DLDI-EXT2, DSGBA, DSMEM, GBAMP, GBAMP-EXT2, NDS)

Ryland Taylor-Almanza · 05-25-2010, 06:12 PM

I'm using the DLDI build

knudfl · 05-27-2010, 02:17 PM

From post #1 :

Quote:

... and the pre-built toolchain ...

Where did you get that, and what is its file name ?

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