Hello Forum, I have problems with "Make"

OK you can use the package browser here: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.php

You don't mention which slackware version you have (try cat /etc/slackware-version) but here is the d directory for slack 12: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.....0/slackware/d

Use 'upgradepkg' or 'installpkg' as root to install these, providing of course that you can upload them to your server with no problems. Use pkgtool to check which ones you have installed already, and if you have any use upgradepkg. If you do not have them use installpkg.

If you can't make sense of config.log, you could try posting it here.

Originally Posted by dive OK you can use the package browser here: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.php You don't mention which slackware version you have (try cat /etc/slackware-version) but here is the d directory for slack 12: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.....0/slackware/d Use 'upgradepkg' or 'installpkg' as root to install these, providing of course that you can upload them to your server with no problems. Use pkgtool to check which ones you have installed already, and if you have any use upgradepkg. If you do not have them use installpkg.

Big thanks for that, a Major step forward I should think.

and it's Slackware 10.2.0

Originally Posted by Uncle_Theodore If you can't make sense of config.log, you could try posting it here.

Thanks, it may even come to that...

Actually it might be easier to navigate to the dir where you stored the packages and do something like:

for f in *.tgz; do upgradepkg --install-new $f; done

Originally Posted by dive OK you can use the package browser here: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.php You don't mention which slackware version you have (try cat /etc/slackware-version) but here is the d directory for slack 12: http://packages.slackware.it/browse.....0/slackware/d Use 'upgradepkg' or 'installpkg' as root to install these, providing of course that you can upload them to your server with no problems. Use pkgtool to check which ones you have installed already, and if you have any use upgradepkg. If you do not have them use installpkg.

I've looked in the directory for /d, there's a big long list of stuff in there, mostly .tgz,

q1, if i dowload them and tar -zxf them, does that mean they are installed? (or am I abit stuffed because my attempts to install things so far has failed because of the very problem with "make" that i'm trying to fix.

q2, is there a way to download the whole lot? some way i can just wget the lot as a package?

q3, is there a command i can use to test the presence of each package? would packagename --version work for any of them?


thanks for your infinate patience and sublime compassion.

Originally Posted by properganda I've looked in the directory for /d, there's a big long list of stuff in there, mostly .tgz,

Yes, those are the packages.

q1, if i dowload them and tar -zxf them, does that mean they are installed? (or am I abit stuffed because my attempts to install things so far has failed because of the very problem with "make" that i'm trying to fix.

A big NO. You don't untar them. You install them with the installpkg or the upgradepkg command. No make, no ./configure, no unpacking.

q2, is there a way to download the whole lot? some way i can just wget the lot as a package?

Just use your favorite download manager or a browser. Konqueror from KDE will work just fine.

q3, is there a command i can use to test the presence of each package? would packagename --version work for any of them?

Not really. Sometimes, executables have names different from that of the packages.
Look in you /var/log/packages directory. It has the names of all packages installed in your system.
BTW, it still would be better to see what config.log has to say before attemting such a big upgrade. Maybe, you just need a couple of packages...

Thanks Theo, will knaw away on that for awhile.

Originally Posted by Uncle_Theodore BTW, it still would be better to see what config.log has to say before attemting such a big upgrade. Maybe, you just need a couple of packages...

Right, here is the config.log file from when I attempted to install Python, it's abit long but... well, you did ask for it!

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by python configure 2.5, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was $ ./configure ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = propergandas.box.net uname -m = i686 uname -r = 2.4.33grs-bipiv-ipv4-32 uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 SMP lun oct 23 19:00:07 CEST 2006 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = i686 /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /usr/local/sbin PATH: /usr/sbin PATH: /sbin PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /usr/bin PATH: /bin PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin PATH: /usr/games ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1517: checking MACHDEP configure:1667: result: linux2 configure:1673: checking EXTRAPLATDIR configure:1688: result: configure:1709: checking for --without-gcc configure:1758: result: no configure:1817: checking for gcc configure:1833: found /usr/bin/gcc configure:1843: result: gcc configure:2087: checking for C compiler version configure:2090: gcc --version </dev/null >&5 gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. configure:2093: $? = 0 configure:2095: gcc -v </dev/null >&5 Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.6/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld --verbose --target=i486-slackware-linux --host=i486-slackware-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.6 configure:2098: $? = 0 configure:2100: gcc -V </dev/null >&5 gcc: `-V' option must have argument configure:2103: $? = 1 configure:2126: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2129: gcc conftest.c >&5 configure:2132: $? = 0 configure:2178: result: a.out configure:2183: checking whether the C compiler works configure:2189: ./a.out configure:2192: $? = 0 configure:2209: result: yes configure:2216: checking whether we are cross compiling configure:2218: result: no configure:2221: checking for suffix of executables configure:2223: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5 configure:2226: $? = 0 configure:2251: result: configure:2257: checking for suffix of object files configure:2278: gcc -c conftest.c >&5 configure:2281: $? = 0 configure:2303: result: o configure:2307: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler configure:2331: gcc -c conftest.c >&5 configure:2337: $? = 0 configure:2341: test -z || test ! -s conftest.err configure:2344: $? = 0 configure:2347: test -s conftest.o configure:2350: $? = 0 configure:2363: result: yes configure:2369: checking whether gcc accepts -g configure:2390: gcc -c -g conftest.c >&5 configure:2396: $? = 0 configure:2400: test -z || test ! -s conftest.err configure:2403: $? = 0 configure:2406: test -s conftest.o configure:2409: $? = 0 configure:2420: result: yes configure:2437: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C configure:2507: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 configure:2513: $? = 0 configure:2517: test -z || test ! -s conftest.err configure:2520: $? = 0 configure:2523: test -s conftest.o configure:2526: $? = 0 configure:2544: result: none needed configure:2562: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 conftest.c:2: error: syntax error before "me" configure:2568: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | #ifndef __cplusplus | choke me | #endif configure:2704: checking for --with-cxx-main=<compiler> configure:2730: result: no configure:2739: checking for g++ configure:2770: result: g++ configure:2877: WARNING: By default, distutils will build C++ extension modules with "g++". If this is not intended, then set CXX on the configure command line. configure:2893: checking how to run the C preprocessor configure:2928: gcc -E conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:2928: gcc -E conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:2928: gcc -E -traditional-cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/features.h:308, from /usr/include/assert.h:36, from conftest.c:14: /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:31: #error "You need a ISO C conforming compiler to use the glibc headers" configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:2928: gcc -E -traditional-cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/features.h:308, from /usr/include/assert.h:36, from conftest.c:14: /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:31: #error "You need a ISO C conforming compiler to use the glibc headers" configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:2928: /lib/cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:2928: /lib/cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:2934: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:3011: result: /lib/cpp configure:3035: /lib/cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:3041: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:3035: /lib/cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:122, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory configure:3041: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 | #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 | #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1 | #define _BSD_TYPES 1 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 | #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 | #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #ifdef __STDC__ | # include <limits.h> | #else | # include <assert.h> | #endif | Syntax error configure:3110: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details. ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=yes ac_cv_env_CC_set= ac_cv_env_CC_value= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPP_set= ac_cv_env_CPP_value= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_build_alias_set= ac_cv_env_build_alias_value= ac_cv_env_host_alias_set= ac_cv_env_host_alias_value= ac_cv_env_target_alias_set= ac_cv_env_target_alias_value= ac_cv_exeext= ac_cv_objext=o ac_cv_path_CXX=g++ ac_cv_prog_CPP=/lib/cpp ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_CC=gcc ac_cv_prog_cc_g=yes ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc= ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## AR='' BASECFLAGS='' BLDLIBRARY='' BLDSHARED='' BUILDEXEEXT='' CC='gcc' CCSHARED='' CFLAGS='-g -O2' CFLAGSFORSHARED='' CONFIGURE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='' CONFIG_ARGS='' CPP='/lib/cpp' CPPFLAGS='' CXX='g++' DEFS='' DLINCLDIR='' DLLLIBRARY='' DYNLOADFILE='' ECHO_C='' ECHO_N='-n' ECHO_T='' EGREP='' EXEEXT='' EXPORT_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='#' EXTRAMACHDEPPATH='' EXTRAPLATDIR='' FRAMEWORKALTINSTALLFIRST='' FRAMEWORKALTINSTALLLAST='' FRAMEWORKINSTALLFIRST='' FRAMEWORKINSTALLLAST='' FRAMEWORKUNIXTOOLSPREFIX='/usr/local' HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME='' HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R='' HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_3_ARG='' HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_5_ARG='' HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6_ARG='' INSTALL_DATA='' INSTALL_PROGRAM='' INSTALL_SCRIPT='' INSTSONAME='' LDFLAGS='' LDLAST='' LDLIBRARY='' LDLIBRARYDIR='' LDSHARED='' LIBC='' LIBM='' LIBOBJS='' LIBRARY='' LIBS='' LIBTOOL_CRUFT='' LINKCC='' LINKFORSHARED='' LN='' LTLIBOBJS='' MACHDEP='linux2' MACHDEP_OBJS='' MAINCC='$(CC)' OBJEXT='o' OPT='' OTHER_LIBTOOL_OPT='' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='http://www.python.org/python-bugs' PACKAGE_NAME='python' PACKAGE_STRING='python 2.5' PACKAGE_TARNAME='python' PACKAGE_VERSION='2.5' PATH_SEPARATOR=':' PYTHONFRAMEWORK='' PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR='no-framework' PYTHONFRAMEWORKINSTALLDIR='' PYTHONFRAMEWORKPREFIX='' RANLIB='' RUNSHARED='' SGI_ABI='' SHELL='/bin/sh' SHLIBS='' SIGNAL_OBJS='' SO='' SOVERSION='1.0' SRCDIRS='' SVNVERSION='' THREADHEADERS='' THREADOBJ='' TRUE='' UNICODE_OBJS='' UNIVERSALSDK='' USE_SIGNAL_MODULE='' USE_THREAD_MODULE='' VERSION='2.5' ac_ct_CC='gcc' ac_ct_RANLIB='' bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' build_alias='' datadir='${prefix}/share' exec_prefix='NONE' host_alias='' includedir='${prefix}/include' infodir='${prefix}/info' libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec' localstatedir='${prefix}/var' mandir='${prefix}/man' oldincludedir='/usr/include' prefix='NONE' program_transform_name='s,x,x,' sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin' sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' target_alias='' ## ----------- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## ----------- ## #define _BSD_TYPES 1 #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1 #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1

Originally Posted by gnashley Yep, that counts. After all how could an 'insane' compiler do anything but give 'crazy' errors? lol Sound like you are missing some other basic package needed for compiling programs. Make sure you have kernel-headers, glibc, autoconf, automake, binutils, flex, gcc, g++, kernel-headers, make, libtool, m4, perl -that's most of the basic stuff anyway -probably easiest to say make sure you have all the /d packages installed as you can't go wrong that way.

I think I found the problem, it was kernel-headers I didn't have, I installed that using installpkg and the make command then worked.

Now I will reinstall the OS from scratch (for a clean-slate) and see how what I stumble other next.