RE: EXTERNAL: Re: ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "The specified module could not be found"

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "The specified module could not be found"

[Whitlock, Bradley D]

Ludo,

I re-ran 'make' and got some warnings that I had not noticed before:

make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory `/c/home/guile-1.8.8/build/guile-readline'
Making all in ice-9
make[4]: Entering directory `/c/home/guile-1.8.8/build/guile-readline/ice-9'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/c/home/guile-1.8.8/build/guile-readline/ice-9'
make[4]: Entering directory `/c/home/guile-1.8.8/build/guile-readline'
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSCM_IMPORT -I.
 -I../../guile-readline -I. -I.. -I../../guile-readline/..    -g -O2 -MT readlin
e.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/readline.Tpo -c -o readline.lo ../../guile-readline/readl
ine.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSCM_IMPORT -I. -I../../guile-readline -
I. -I.. -I../../guile-readline/.. -g -O2 -MT readline.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/readl
ine.Tpo -c ../../guile-readline/readline.c  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/readline
.o
mv -f .deps/readline.Tpo .deps/readline.Plo
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -version-info 17:3:0 -expor
t-dynamic -no-undefined  -o libguilereadline-v-17.la -rpath /usr/local/lib readl
ine.lo ../libguile/libguile.la -lreadline -ltermcap

*** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -ltermcap.
*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
*** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have
*** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting
*** with libtermcap and none of the candidates passed a file format test
*** using a file magic. Last file checked: /usr/local/lib/libtermcap.a
*** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
*** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
*** or is declared to -dlopen it.

*** Since this library must not contain undefined symbols,
*** because either the platform does not support them or
*** it was explicitly requested with -no-undefined,
*** libtool will only create a static version of it.
libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libguilereadline-v-17.a .libs/readline.o
libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libguilereadline-v-17.a
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libguilereadline-v-17.la" && cp -p "../lib
guilereadline-v-17.la" "libguilereadline-v-17.la" )

So it looks like the dll version of libguilereadline-v-17 is not building because I don't have a dll of libtermcap (but I do have static version). Not sure how to get a dll termcap because the package seems really simple, I don't even think it recognizes --enable-shared option.

Here is the config output for termcap-1.3.1:
$ ../configure --disable-static --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether cross-compiling... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile

$ make
gcc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/
etc/termcap\" -I. -I.. -g ../termcap.c
gcc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/
etc/termcap\" -I. -I.. -g ../tparam.c
gcc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/
etc/termcap\" -I. -I.. -g ../version.c
ar rc libtermcap.a termcap.o tparam.o version.o
ranlib libtermcap.a

Definitely not building dll version...How do I get dll of termcap?

-Thanks
Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludovic Courtès [mailto:ludo@gnu.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:02 AM
To: Whitlock, Bradley D
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "The specified module could not be found"

Hi,

"Whitlock, Bradley D" <bradley.d.whitlock@lmco.com> writes:

> It seems to me that the guile readline dll is not being built. I built guile as follows:
>
> cp /c/MinGW/lib/libws2_32.a /usr/local/lib
> ../configure -C --disable-static --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local && make install
>
> Shouldn't there be a libguilereadline-v-17.dll.a in /usr/local/lib rather than libguilereadline-v-17.a ?

It could be that ‘configure’, or even ‘libtool --mode=link’, determined
that it can’t build shared libraries for some reason.

Can you grep ‘config.log’ for “shared” and also check the whole build
log for Libtool warnings?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "The specified module could not be found"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Whitlock, Bradley D" <bradley.d.whitlock@lmco.com> writes:

> Here is the config output for termcap-1.3.1:
> $ ../configure --disable-static --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local

[...]

> ar rc libtermcap.a termcap.o tparam.o version.o
> ranlib libtermcap.a
>
> Definitely not building dll version...How do I get dll of termcap?

Hmm no idea.

Termcap 1.3.1 at gnu.org is very old, and in particular it doesn’t use
Libtool and lacks support for building a shared library.

However, you can use ncurses instead, and Guile’s ‘configure’ will pick
it instead of termcap.

Hope this helps,
Ludo’.