Re: installation problem with gentoo

From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 15:24:29 PST

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    Jody,
    
    Sorry for the slow response.  With the annual SuperComputing conference 
    later this month, this is my busiest time of year.
    
    I am uncertain what could be causing your problems because the output 
    you provided suggests a syntax problem in the configure script.  One 
    possibility is that the patch might have gotten messed up and left 
    unbalanced quotes.  The other thing that comes to mind has already been 
    suggested by Alan for another user's problem: run "autoreconf -f -i".
    
    Finally, you say you downgraded automake because version 1.10 
    complained.  It seems possible that the complaints from automake-1.10 
    might have indicated the problem.  Even if they didn't, they probably 
    indicate something I should fix.  So, could you please post the 
    complaints that automake-1.10 generated.
    
    It also just occurred to be that downgrading automake w/o changing the 
    versions of the other autotools might also be a source of problems if 
    there is a dependency that has not been recorded in portage.
    
    -Paul
    
    jody wrote:
    > Hi Paul
    >
    > thanks foor your suggestions.
    > I did as you proposed. However, I had to emerge an older version of
    > automake (1.8.5) because autogen.sh complained when i used my
    > current automake version (1.10). Then, autogen.sh reported:
    >
    >   configure.ac: installing `./config/install-sh'
    >   configure.ac: installing `./config/missing'
    >   configure.ac:196: installing `./config/config.guess'
    >   configure.ac:196: installing `./config/config.sub'
    >
    > but since these didn't seem like error messages i went on to do my
    > configure call
    >   ./configure --prefix=/opt/blcr-0.8.2
    > --with-system-map=/boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r6
    > --with-linux=/tmp/linux-2.6.30
    >
    > This time it got even further, but then reported various errors (see
    > attachment).
    >
    > I know i haven't tampered around with any of the files in the
    > blcr-0.8.2 directory i downloaded,
    > so i don't know if that error was there previously or if it was caused
    > by my automake...
    >
    > Jody
    >
    > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Paul H. Hargrove <PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov> wrote:
    >   
    >> Jody,
    >>
    >> I strongly suspect you are seeing the same problem with 2.6.30 that has been
    >> seen with the RPM and APT packaging.  See the following archived email
    >> message and try the patch:
    >>    http://www.nersc.gov/hypermail/checkpoint/1268.html
    >> After applying the patch you will need to run the "autogen.sh" script.
    >>
    >> -Paul
    >>
    >> jody wrote:
    >>     
    >>> Hi
    >>> I tried to install BLCR on my gentoo machine (gentoo kernel
    >>> 2.6.30-gentoo-r6)
    >>> but i don't get past thr configuring stage.
    >>>
    >>> If i do
    >>>  ./configure --prefix=/opt/blcr-0.8.2
    >>> the reply is
    >>>  checking for Linux kernel symbol table... failed
    >>>  configure: error: Failed to locate kernel symbol table.  Try using
    >>> --with-system-map or --with-vmlinux.
    >>>
    >>> if i do
    >>>  ./configure --prefix=/opt/blcr-0.8.2
    >>> --with-vmlinux=/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6/vmlinux
    >>> the reply is
    >>>  checking for Linux kernel symbol table... failed
    >>>  configure: error: Failed to validate
    >>> "/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6/vmlinux"
    >>>
    >>> if i do
    >>>  configure --prefix=/opt/blcr-0.8.2
    >>> --with-system-map=/boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r6
    >>> the reply is
    >>>  checking for Linux kernel symbol table... failed
    >>>  configure: error: Failed to validate
    >>> "/boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r6"
    >>>
    >>> But those files exist:
    >>> # ls -l /boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r6
    >>>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310433 Oct 11 01:51
    >>> /boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.30-gentoo-r6
    >>> # ls -l /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6/vmlinux
    >>>  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8374414 Oct 11 01:51
    >>> /usr/src/linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6/vmlinux
    >>>
    >>> Does anybody have an idea how i can get this to work?
    >>>
    >>> Thank You
    >>>  Jody
    >>>
    >>>       
    >> --
    >> Paul H. Hargrove                          PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov
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    >> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    >>
    >>     
    
    
    -- 
    Paul H. Hargrove                          PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov
    Future Technologies Group                 Tel: +1-510-495-2352
    HPC Research Department                   Fax: +1-510-486-6900
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory     
    

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