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Building firefox error: c compiler cannot create executables

I'm trying to build firefox but I'm having some problems. I currently have Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (trial if that matters). My mozconfig file: # Firefox ac_add_options --enable-application=browser mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/c/mozilla-build/mozilla-central/objdir-ff-release mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" # Java XCOM ac_add_o...

Compiling BerkeleyDB-C on Fedora

Hi all, I'm trying to compile BerkeleyDB-C 4.7.25 on Linux but .configure gives me an error I don't know how to fix. uname -s -p -m -i -o -v Linux #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux more /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) ../dist/configure --enable-cxx --enable-java --enable-rpc (...) configure...

How to point autoconf/automake to non-standard packages

I'm trying to build ZooKeeper on a RedHat Linux box. (Exactly what ZooKeeper is is probably not important :-) When I follow the package instructions, I get: $ autoreconf -if aclocal:configure.ac:33: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library aclocal:configure.ac:33: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library conf...

[autoconf] how get fully expanded variables out of configure?

hi all i created a configure.ac file like this: AC_INIT() set the purpose of this is to print every available environment variable the configure script creates using 'set' so i do: user@host:~$ autoconf user@host:~$ ./configure which prints a bunch of variables like build= cache_file=/dev/null IFS=' ' LANG=C LANGUAGE=C d...

configure apache with sql

Hello, I am newly using Apache Tomcat6.0 I am unable to access sql database through my jsp and getting java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver Tried steps at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html downloaded drivers mysql-connector-java-5.1.9 and mysql-5.0.85-w...

Autoconf problem: “error: C compiler cannot create executables”

I'm trying to build a program I've written in C using GNU autotools, but I evidently have it set up wrong because when configure runs, it spits out: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables If I look in config.log, I see: configure:2846: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2868: gcc conftest.c ...

Is there a tool for finding out what packages provide a file?

For example, if ./configure or Make tells me I'm lacking libX11.so.6, and it's nowhere on my system, is there a tool or website into which I could type libX11.so.6 followed by a distribution/arch and get back libx11-6 libx11-6-debug [or whatever; asking README would probably return reams of entries] http://sysinf0.klabs....

How to get a configure script to look for a library

I'm trying to write a configure.ac file such that the resulting configure script searches for a library directory containing a given static library e.g. libsomething.a. How can I do this? At the moment I have it check just one location with: AC_CHECK_FILE([/usr/local/lib/libsomething.a],[AC_SUBST(libsomething,"-L/usr/local/lib -lsomethi...

how to use unix configure to compile 32 bits executable on 64 bits

I want to compile a program using the standard ./configure , make, make install. I am using 64 bits machine but I want the executable to be 32 bits executable. What is the way to do this, I did ./configure --help but saw nothing on this (it has the --disable-64bit but it does not seem to do the work ...

compiling xdebug on linux -> passing 32 bit option to ./configure

Greetings! When trying to compile xdebug, is there a way to pass it a 32-bit option? What I have right now is this: ./configure --with-php-config=/opt/lampp/bin/php-config ... or is there a better way to obtain a 32-bit bin of xdebug? Thaks ...

How to detect the compile-time ./configure options of apache 1.3?

Hello, I have an old apache 1.3 instalation. I know it was compiled from source, I have source tarbal, but I do not have saved ./configure flags. I need to recompile this apache with exacly same confiugre flags, and with EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE" enabled for debugging. Do you know how to determine ./congigure flags from ins...

apr-util configuration problem on AIX 52 and AIX 53 OS

I am trying to build apr-util subversion dependency library on AIX. Configure errors out saying "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables. See `config.log' for more details." I am not sure what am i missing in configuration flags that the config.log ends up saying configure:3064: checking for C compiler default output fi...

Why has nobody created an open source build system for the brain dead?

I want to build a shared library. GNU/Linux is the development and target platform. C is the implementation language. I can't decide how I want to setup the build system and keep flitting around three options each of which have lots of reasons to dislike: hand crafted Makefiles - I've worked this way almost exclusively in the past GNU...

problem building GD on Ubuntu 'Jaunty'

I'm having trouble building gdlib. As far as I can tell, zlib, png and all the rest are installed in either /lib or /usr/lib. It does not seem to matter whether I use --prefix or one or all of the --with-, the configure script keeps on insisting that it can't find any of the supporting libraries. ** Configuration summary for gd 2.0.34: ...

Can you recommend a good resource for configuring db40 on Mono / Open SUSE?

The db40 forums seem to have sparse activity. I am seeking a blog post, article, or your input on how you installed and configured db40 for Mono on the Open SUSE / Ubuntu platform. I am a Linux n00b and anything you can provide would help greatly. ...

How to configure something like phpmyadmin in windows and linux?

When I visit http://domain.name/DIRECTORy,it should go to another DOCUMENT_ROOT. I'm using Apache,how to configure it correct in windows and linux respectively? ...

Directory for files generated by Make during installation from configure, make and make install

Just assume we are installing some libraries from its source distributed by the way GNU promoted. When using "./configure --prefix" to specify where to install. (1) does Make generate the binaries under the current directory? Does Make install then copies them from the current directory (which is from where Make is run) to $prefix? If ...

Is it possible to compile ImageMagick with custom libxml2 on the Mac

It always seems to pick up the version from /usr/lib and there doesn't seem to be a ./configure parameter to override it. ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --with-quantum-depth=8 --disable-installed --without-x --without-perl --enable-static --disable-shared --with-jpeg --with-tiff CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" --d...

Build system for a highly modular portable open source project

We have an Open Source software project in the very beginning. The program is thought to be highly modular: for example, the underlying database can be either sqlite, postgre, or berkley, depending on the preferences of the end-user. Only one systematic approach I'm confident with, is to use Autotools (GNU build system). I would like to...

how to configure settings of visual studio console window once and for all

How can I change the default settings of the Visual Studio console window? ...