Progress!, was [Gretl-devel] Problems building and installing on Fedora 8

[Max Pyziur]

On Fedora 8, libblas is installed separately. However, reviewing your 
notes below I also installed blas-devel. This caused the 
rpmbuild/compilation to go farther. (It might be worthwhile to this 
dependency in the spec file).

The following message registered after 
the configuration (which didn't before blas-devel):
Configuration:

   Installation path:                      /usr
   Use readline library:                   yes
   Use gnuplot for graphs:                 yes
   Use PNG for gnuplot graphs:             yes
   Use LaTeX for typesetting output:       yes
   Gnu Multiple Precision support:         yes
   MPFR support:                           yes
   LAPACK support:                         yes
   FFTW3 support:                          yes
   Build with GTK version:                 2.0
   Script syntax highlighting:             yes
   Use installed gtksourceview:            no
   Use GTK printing apparatus:             yes
   Build with gnome support:               2.0
   Build gretl documentation:              no
   Use Lucida fonts:                       no
   Build message catalogs:                 yes
   Gnome installation prefix:              /usr
   X-12-ARIMA support:                     yes
   TRAMO/SEATS support:                    yes
   Experimental audio support:             no


Now type 'make' to build gretl.

+ make

...

but then it failed with the following:

gcc -o .libs/gretl_x11 about.o boxplots.o calculator.o callbacks.o 
clipboard.o cmdstack.o console.o database.o datafiles.o dialogs.o 
dlgutils.o filelists.o fileselect.o filters.o fncall.o fnsave.o 
graph_page.o gpt_control.o gpt_dialog.o gretl.o guiprint.o gui_recode.o 
gui_utils.o helpfiles.o library.o menustate.o model_table.o objectsave.o 
obsbutton.o selector.o series_view.o session.o settings.o ssheet.o 
textbuf.o textutil.o toolbar.o treeutils.o update.o gtkfontselhack.o 
-pthread -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 
-lgnome-2 -lpopt -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lart_lgpl_2 -lgtk-x11-2.0 
-lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgconf-2 
-lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt 
-L/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gretl-1.7.4/gui2/gtksourceview 
-lgtksourceview-lite 
-L/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gretl-1.7.4/gui2/gtkextra-lite -lgtkextra-lite 
../lib/.libs/libgretl-1.0.so -L/usr/lib -llapack -lblas -lgfortran 
-L/usr/local/lib -lz -lxml2 -lgmp -lfftw3 -lm -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so when searching 
for -lgnomeui-2
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libSM.so when searching for 
-lSM
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so when 
searching for -lbonoboui-2
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so when 
searching for -lgnomevfs-2
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so when 
searching for -lgnomecanvas-2
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so when searching 
for -lgnome-2
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpopt.so when searching for 
-lpopt
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpopt.so when searching for 
-lpopt
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpopt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gretl_x11] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gretl-1.7.4/gui2'
make: *** [gui2] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.91719 (%build)


RPM build errors:
     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.91719 (%build)
...

How should this be pursued?

Much thanks for all of your help.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com


On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Sat, 3 May 2008, Max Pyziur wrote:
>
>> I have an Fedora Core 2 machine which I use as a home server.
>> Your latest rpm build of gretl does install on that machine.
>> However, I still can't build it on that machine.
>>
>> I have installed gretl-1.7.4-1gtk2.i586.rpm on my Core 2 using
>> the --nodeps flag. As yet, I haven't tried using it, other than
>> bringing up the initial interface.
>>
>> I have tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable both on the
>> FC2 as well as the FC8 machine in the hopes of getting gretl to
>> build. No luck.
>
> I'll go back to your previous message...
>
> "I get the following two sets of errors:
> 1) checking for LAPACK... no
> *** Could not run LAPACK test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See config.log for the
> *** exact error that occured. This may mean LAPACK was incorrectly installed
> *** or that you have moved LAPACK since it was installed."
>
> Well, like it says, take a look at config.log.  Lapack 3.1.1 is
> installed, according to rpm -qa, but maybe libblas is missing, or
> maybe none of libf2c/libg2c/libgfortran can be found? liblapack is
> not usable without libblas, and the lapack+blas combination in
> turn is useless without a basic fortran library.  On recent Fedora
> I'd expect that to be libgfortran.so; on older systems it was
> libg2c.so, and on even older systems, libf2c.so.
>
> "2) The rpmbuild fails with the following:
> mkdir .libs
> gcc -o .libs/gretlcli gretlcli.o complete.o
> ../lib/.libs/libgretl-1.0.so
> -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lz -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 -lgmp -lfftw3 -lm
> -lreadline -ltermcap
> ../lib/.libs/libgretl-1.0.so: undefined reference to `dtrcon_'"
>
> That's just the same error: dtrcon_ is defined by liblapack.
>
> On my system:
>
> waverley:~$ /bin/ls -1 /usr/lib/liblapack*
> /usr/lib/liblapack.so
> /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3
> /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.1
> /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.1.1
> waverley:~$ /bin/ls -1 /usr/lib/libblas*
> /usr/lib/libblas.so
> /usr/lib/libblas.so.3
> /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.1
> /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.1.1
> waverley:~$ locate libgfortran.so
> /opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so
> /opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so.3
> /opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
>
>
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