[Box Backup] Release Candidate 3, gcc, g++, readline problems

[Ben Summers]

Can you put some instructions on the wiki please? Let's get all this  
knowledge in one place.

Thanks!

Ben


On 19 Feb 2006, at 19:53, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:

> Thanks, Stefan.
>
> As that faded poster on my mother's wall said, "Nothing takes the  
> place
> of persistence...".  I tried the symlink but that didn't work.  I
> flailed around for an hour uninstalling and reinstalling gcc4 and
> gcc3.4 or some such and getting different errors in config.log, and
> then, finally:
>   106  sudo apt-get install gcc  manpages-dev automake1.9 libtool flex
> bison gcc-doc
>   108  ./bootstrap
>   109  ./configure
> saw the cc1plus error again, googled it, found
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10867
> which says:  Solved: # apt-get install g++
>   111  apt-get install g++
>   112  ./bootstrap
>   113  ./configure
> and the rest, they say, is:
>   114  history
>
> I noticed at the end of the ./config out that readline said no.
> Large files:         yes
> Berkeley DB:         yes
> Readline:            no
> Extended attributes: yes
>
> Flailing, I drink exactly one (40 oz) beer, I swear, and got out my
> apt-get shotgun:
>   118 apt-get install libreadline4-dev
>   119  apt-get install libreadline4
>   120  apt-get install libreadline5-dev
> but it still said no.  Then I shot again:
>   126  apt-get install libedit2 libedit-dev libeditline-dev
> and then readline worked (not sure if I needed ALL 3 editline packages
> or ANY of the readline packages, and too compile-exhausted to rerun
> it):
> checking for editline library... -ledit
> checking editline/readline.h usability... yes
> checking editline/readline.h presence... yes
> checking for editline/readline.h... yes
> checking whether editline supports history... yes
> checking for editline/readline.h... (cached) yes
> ...
> Large files:         yes
> Berkeley DB:         yes
> Readline:            yes
> Extended attributes: yes
>
> Luckily, no one got hurt.
>
> Eighteen hours later, I can report that I see the Extended attributes:
> yes and all the mail traffic about xattr.  Let me know if you need me
> to do anything with that (I have no idea what it all means or where I
> would start).
>
> Thanks again, Stefan, for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> Ok, now where was I...
>
> Pete
>
> --- Stefan Norlin <stefan.norlin@infoflexconnect.se> wrote:
>
>>>>> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure:
>>>> error:
>>>>> C++ compiler cannot create executables
>>>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>> You seem to have some kind of problem with your g++
>> installation?
>>
>> You have these lines in your config.log.
>>
>> configure:1585: g++ conftest.cc >&5
>> g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or
>> directory
>> configure:1588: $? = 1
>>
>> If you search google for
>>
>> g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> you find all kinds of problem descriptions and solutions.
>>
>> For example there is some symlink solution in this thread:
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=124961
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan
>>
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