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Old 09-18-2012, 03:13 PM   #1
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Blimps software - Weird compile errors during make install after a make depend


I am trying to install Blimps, which can be found here:

ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/blocks/unix/blimps

After running 'make depend' (I just renamed Makefile.Linux to makefile), I was getting errors as makedepend couldn't find some header files. It automatically searches ../include, so all I did was locate the header files on my system and then created symlinks in ../include. At this point, makedepend works.

Now I need to make install, however after running it, I am getting a plethora of errors, such as:

In file included from ../include/global.h:15, from pattern.c:12:/usr/include/stdlib.h:140: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__ctype_get_mb_cur_max'.

I am on x86_64 using CentOS. I'm not really sure what to do next. Any help would be appreciated. The readme said that you need an ANSI compiler, I'm using gcc so I'm not sure if that means anything.

EDIT: Seems like their ftp is down, hopefully it'll come back up soon.

Last edited by aafc; 09-18-2012 at 03:19 PM. Reason: link might be dead
 
Old 09-18-2012, 10:51 PM   #2
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Most likely you are missing a C header file.

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I am trying to install Blimps, which can be found here:

ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/blocks/unix/blimps

After running 'make depend' (I just renamed Makefile.Linux to makefile), I was getting errors as makedepend couldn't find some header files. It automatically searches ../include, so all I did was locate the header files on my system and then created symlinks in ../include. At this point, makedepend works.

Now I need to make install, however after running it, I am getting a plethora of errors, such as:

In file included from ../include/global.h:15, from pattern.c:12:/usr/include/stdlib.h:140: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__ctype_get_mb_cur_max'.

I am on x86_64 using CentOS. I'm not really sure what to do next. Any help would be appreciated. The readme said that you need an ANSI compiler, I'm using gcc so I'm not sure if that means anything.

EDIT: Seems like their ftp is down, hopefully it'll come back up soon.
 
Old 09-19-2012, 09:51 AM   #3
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make depend goes through every .c file and assembles a list of the headers I need. Since I can run make depend after symlinking the headers I don't think the issue is missing headers.
 
Old 09-19-2012, 10:07 AM   #4
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at first posting only one line is not sufficient to find out the reason. Second: linking some headers may solve some issues, but may bring up several other issues, like: some other includes were not linked therefore cannot be found later. Some installed structures had been mixed, the result is an unusable bunch of files
 
  


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