Help installing guile from source

Help installing guile from source

[Kaushal Modi]

Hello,

I thought I installed all the dependencies for guile, but make failed at
the last moment with this error:

make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/kmodi/downloads/git/guile/guile-readline'
  CC       readline.lo
  CCLD     guile-readline.la
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgc.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64/libffi.la' seems to be
moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libunistring.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgmp.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libltdl.la' seems to be moved
/usr/bin/ld: /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):
relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_nc_globals' can not be used when making a
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1753: guile-readline.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/kmodi/downloads/git/guile/guile-readline'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1681: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/kmodi/downloads/git/guile/guile-readline'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1848: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/kmodi/downloads/git/guile'
make: *** [Makefile:1733: all] Error 2

Here is what I did:

CFLAGS="-I${STOW_PKGS_TARGET}/include -I${STOW_PKGS_TARGET}/include/gc" \
      LDFLAGS="-L${STOW_PKGS_TARGET}/lib" \
      BDW_GC_CFLAGS="-L${STOW_PKGS_TARGET}/lib" \
      BDW_GC_LIBS=-lgc \
      ./configure --prefix="${guile_install_dir}"
make

I install the libs and packages using stow organization:

So the lib/pkg will be installed in

~/stow/pkgs/PKGNAME/VERSION

and under there we will have

~/stow/pkgs/PKGNAME/VERSION/{bin,lib,share,include}

After running stow, symlinks to those are created in the STOW_PKGS_TARGET
dir

~/stowed

Here is a snippet of ls that showed the last few installed libs in
~/stowed/lib

lrwxrwxrwx 50 kmodi 12 Oct 14:19 libltdl.so.7.3.1 ->
../../stow/pkgs/libtool/2.4.6/lib/libltdl.so.7.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx 44 kmodi 12 Oct 14:19 libltdl.so ->
../../stow/pkgs/libtool/2.4.6/lib/libltdl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 44 kmodi 12 Oct 14:19 libltdl.la ->
../../stow/pkgs/libtool/2.4.6/lib/libltdl.la
lrwxrwxrwx 46 kmodi 12 Oct 14:19 libltdl.so.7 ->
../../stow/pkgs/libtool/2.4.6/lib/libltdl.so.7
lrwxrwxrwx 43 kmodi 12 Oct 14:19 libltdl.a ->
../../stow/pkgs/libtool/2.4.6/lib/libltdl.a
lrwxrwxrwx 60 kmodi 12 Oct 14:29 libunistring.so.2.0.0 ->
../../stow/pkgs/libunistring/0.9.7/lib/libunistring.so.2.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 54 kmodi 12 Oct 14:29 libunistring.la ->
../../stow/pkgs/libunistring/0.9.7/lib/libunistring.la
lrwxrwxrwx 56 kmodi 12 Oct 14:29 libunistring.so.2 ->
../../stow/pkgs/libunistring/0.9.7/lib/libunistring.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 54 kmodi 12 Oct 14:29 libunistring.so ->
../../stow/pkgs/libunistring/0.9.7/lib/libunistring.so
lrwxrwxrwx 53 kmodi 12 Oct 14:29 libunistring.a ->
../../stow/pkgs/libunistring/0.9.7/lib/libunistring.a
drwxr-xr-x  - kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 pkgconfig/
lrwxrwxrwx 36 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libgc.so ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libgc.so
lrwxrwxrwx 42 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libgc.so.1.0.3 ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libgc.so.1.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx 36 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libgc.la -> ../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/
libgc.la
lrwxrwxrwx 38 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libgc.so.1 ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libgc.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 44 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libcord.so.1.0.3 ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libcord.so.1.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx 40 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libcord.so.1 ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libcord.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 38 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libcord.la -> ../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/
libcord.la
lrwxrwxrwx 38 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libcord.so ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libcord.so
lrwxrwxrwx 37 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libcord.a ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libcord.a
lrwxrwxrwx 35 kmodi 12 Oct 14:45 libgc.a ->
../../stow/pkgs/gc/7.2g/lib/libgc.a

So I don't know what these warnings mean:

libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgc.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64/libffi.la' seems to be
moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libunistring.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgmp.la' seems to be moved
libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libltdl.la' seems to be moved

Are those warnings OK to ignore? If so, what does the below error mean?

/usr/bin/ld: /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):
relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_nc_globals' can not be used when making a
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status


Here are the versions of the installed dependencies:

Installing guile from its master branch.

- gmp 6.1.2
- libtool 2.4.6
- libunistring 0.9.7
- gc 7.2g
- ncurses 6.0

Thanks.
-- 

Kaushal Modi

Re: Help installing guile from source

[Kaushal Modi]

I was able to finally install guile, yay!

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:01 AM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I don't know what these warnings mean:
>
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgc.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64/libffi.la' seems to be
> moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libunistring.la' seems to be
> moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgmp.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libltdl.la' seems to be moved
>
> Are those warnings OK to ignore? If so, what does the below error mean?
>

Apparently those can be ignored, because the guile interpreter seems to
work fine.


> /usr/bin/ld: /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_nc_globals' can not be used when making a
> shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>

I fixed that by building ncurses with -fPIC (as the error hints).

Here's my ncurses build script with notes, if it helps someone:

ncurses_install_dir="${STOW_PKGS_ROOT}/ncurses/6.0"

# Fri Oct 13 08:10:02 EDT 2017 - kmodi
# -fPIC is added because building guile failed with this error:
#  /usr/bin/ld: /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):
relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_nc_globals' can not be used when making a
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
#  /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a: could not read symbols: Bad
value
#  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

# Also the INSTALL file says:
#  If you have libtool installed, you can type
#
#    ./configure --with-libtool
#
#  to generate the appropriate static and/or shared libraries for your
platform
#  using libtool.
# As I have libtool installed, adding that option too.

# -L${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}/lib required for libgpm (GPM feature)

# --enable-widec is added because htop uses libncursesw

LDFLAGS="-L${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}/lib
-L${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}/lib64" \
       CFLAGS="-fPIC" \
       ./configure --prefix="${ncurses_install_dir}" \
       --enable-widec \
       --with-libtool
make CFLAGS+=-fPIC
mkdir -p "${ncurses_install_dir}"
make install

-- 

Kaushal Modi

Re: Help installing guile from source

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought I installed all the dependencies for guile, but make failed at
> the last moment with this error:
>
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/kmodi/downloads/git/guile/guile-readline'
>   CC       readline.lo
>   CCLD     guile-readline.la
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgc.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64/libffi.la' seems to be
> moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libunistring.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libgmp.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: warning: '/home/kmodi/stowed/lib/libltdl.la' seems to be moved
> /usr/bin/ld: /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_nc_globals' can not be used when making a
> shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib/libncurses.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1753: guile-readline.la] Error 1

This is the relevant error, relating to ncurses.  Apparently it was
unable to find a shared library for ncurses.  It found only a static
library containing non-relocatable code, but that's not sufficient here
because Guile's trying to build a shared library which needs to be
relocatable.

You can look in 'config.log' for clues of what went wrong when it tried
to find the ncurses shared library.

       Mark

Re: Help installing guile from source

[Kaushal Modi]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017, 9:15 PM Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

>
> This is the relevant error, relating to ncurses.  Apparently it was
> unable to find a shared library for ncurses.  It found only a static
> library containing non-relocatable code, but that's not sufficient here
> because Guile's trying to build a shared library which needs to be
> relocatable.
>
> You can look in 'config.log' for clues of what went wrong when it tried
> to find the ncurses shared library.


Thanks Mark,

As I later found, that *was* the case. I now have guile working.
-- 

Kaushal Modi