Eclipse CDT Linuxtools gives broken pipe error

Question

I am running Eclipse CDT 6.0.2 on a SLES 11 x86_64 platform. My project is of linuxtools type. I am getting the following error running builds:

"
../libtool: line 747: echo: write error: Broken pipe
make[2]: write error
make[1]: *** [all recursive] Error 1
make[1]: write error
make: *** [all recursive] Error 1
"

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

A "broken pipe" means that a program was receiving a piped data stream and then suddenly exited. The system will send a SIGPIPE to the process that was inputting data to the stream, telling it, essentially, "Okay, the recipient died unexpectedly. You can stop sending it data."

I've compiled many a program that had pre-packaged versions of files from autotools such as "config.guess," "ltmain.sh," "missing," etc. A lot of times (especially on my x86_64 installation) these files were old and improperly suited to deal with a 64-bit compilation environment. I believe this script may be needing to be updated.

Try running:

$ automake --add-missing --copy --force