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Topic: Error trying to compile in DSL-N, Missing something?

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Juanito

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Posted: Mar. 13 2007,14:18

I have been trying to set things up in DSL-N to compile binaries rather than load Debian packages.

I unpacked the 2.6.12 kernel sources, loaded the DSL-N version of gnu-utils.dsl, and installed the Debian gcc-2.95 and make packages, but:

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# ./configure
...
error - c compiler not able to create executables

According to Google, the binutils & libgcc1 packages are also required, but the error remains, even with these loaded.

I'm sure I'm missing something simple - but what?

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Posted: Mar. 13 2007,20:30

Is there anything else relevant in the configure output?

You could always open up the script, search for that exact error message, then see what causes the script to fail.

Juanito

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Posted: Mar. 15 2007,10:50

Thanks for the hint - I'd been looking at the config.log file - it seems the relevent error was the following:

configure:3068: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3095: /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 conftest.c >&5
ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

After some searching, I found the file crt1.o in the package libc6-dev which is dependent on the linux-kernel-headers package. The following script (using Debian stable) seems to set up an environment that has allowed me to compile from some binaries:

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Requires dsl-dpkg.dsl & gnu-utils.dsl (DSL-N version)
#
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libgcc1_3.4.3-13sarge1_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libdb4.2_4.2.52-18_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libgdbm3_1.8.3-2_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge5_i386.deb
dpkg -i --force-all /path-to-deb/perl-modules_5.8.4-8sarge5_all.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/perl_5.8.4-8sarge5_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/m4_1.4.2-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/make_3.80-9_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/autoconf_2.59a-3_all.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/autotools-dev_20050422.1_all.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/automake1.8_1.8.5-3_all.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/binutils_2.15-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/cpp-2.95_2.95.4-22_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/gcc-2.95_2.95.4-22_i386.deb
#
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/linux-kernel-headers_2.5.999-test7-bk-17_i386.deb
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5_i386.deb
#
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 /usr/bin/cc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 /usr/bin/gcc
dpkg -i /path-to-deb/libtool_1.5.6-6_i386.deb
#
# EOF

While trying to compile cpufrequtils, I get an error that sysfs/libsysfs.h cannot be found - the makefile has an option "Use the sysfs-based interface which is included in all 2.6 kernels" - kind of odd that it is not in linux-kernel-headers, the Knoppix 4.0.2 CD or the full kernel sources but I guess that's another story (later tracked to libsysfs-dev)

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