compile command is missing?

zacnix · 2023-03-14 20:31:59

So I'm trying to build https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi and it keeps looking for a compile command. I found a shell script in automake and libtool. Linking them into /usr/bin gives me a different error. Did we move the compile command at some point and I didn't bother to read about it?

make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi'
GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 \
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/.libs \
 compile --target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" -O2 -Warity-mismatch -Wformat -Wmacro-use-before-definition -Wunbound-variable --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module \
-o "module/gi.go" "module/gi.scm"
/bin/sh: line 1: compile: command not found
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2796: module/gi.go] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi'
make: *** [Makefile:1097: all] Error 2
zsh: exit 2     make

Then after symlinking in /usr/share/automake-1.16/compile to /usr/bin/compile

make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi'
GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 \
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/.libs \
 compile --target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" -O2 -Warity-mismatch -Wformat -Wmacro-use-before-definition -Wunbound-variable --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module \
-o "module/gi.go" "module/gi.scm"
/usr/bin/compile: line 307: exec: --: invalid option
exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [argument ...]] [redirection ...]
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2602: module/gi.go] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi'
make: *** [Makefile:1044: all] Error 2
zsh: exit 2     make

seth · 2023-03-14 20:40:56

pacman -Qikk go

zacnix · 2023-03-14 21:04:23

I don't think it's a problem with the compile command gone missing. It seems like there's a missing command to be passed to exec and whatever is supposed to fill that in is empty?

@seth yeah I had checked pkgfile for compile and find one in go but that one doesn't help anything either.

I'm also dumb and didn't notice there's a compile shell script in the repo itself.

seth · 2023-03-14 21:19:02

There're two errors in yuor OP
1. compile could not be found
2. /usr/bin/compile doesn't like the "--" token in its options because

symlinking in /usr/share/automake-1.16/compile to /usr/bin/compile

was a stupid idea.

Do you have go installed? What's the output for the command in #2?
Undo the symlink.

zacnix · 2023-03-14 21:26:53

I do have go installed but I'm not sure what go has to do with anything. This isn't a go problem. Guiles compiled files have a .go file extension.

If I run the compile command from output #2

~/usr/bull/guile-gi (2) $ /home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/build-aux/compile --target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" -O2 -Warity-mismatch -Wformat -Wmacro-use-before-definition -Wunbound-variable --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module \
-o "module/gi.go" "module/gi.scm"
###########  exec --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -O2 -Warity-mismatch -Wformat -Wmacro-use-before-definition -Wunbound-variable --load-path=/home/zac/usr/bull/guile-gi/module --load-path=/home/zac/usr/bull/guile-gi/module -o module/gi.go module/gi.scm
/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/build-aux/compile: line 308: exec: --: invalid option
exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [argument ...]] [redirection ...]
zsh: exit 2     /home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/build-aux/compile --target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

I think there's an empty variable in the autotools setup somewhere that I'm missing. I base this purely on the ###### line echo I added to the compile script.

seth · 2023-03-14 21:47:03

compile --target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" -O2 -Warity-mismatch -Wformat -Wmacro-use-before-definition -Wunbound-variable --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module --load-path=/home/zacnix/usr/bull/guile-gi/module -o "module/gi.go" "module/gi.scm"

isn't looking for the autotools compile script, those are compiler flags like for gcc.

What did you run before make?
Comapre the PKGBUILD of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guile-gi-git (and maybe just use that package)

Trilby · 2023-03-14 21:57:58

This is indeed not a compile binary/script it is a parameter for another binary: the makefile command starts with "$(GUILE_TOOLS) compile --target...", but apparently in your case GUILE_TOOLS is not defined. It should be defined (by configure) to /usr/bin/guild which is provided by the guile package.

It builds fine for me when following the upstream build instructions: install dependencies, ./bootstrap, ./configure, and make.

The following (start of a) PKGBUILD successfully compiles and builds a package:

_gitname=guile-gi
pkgname=${_gitname}-git
pkgver=0
pkgrel=1
arch=(x86_64)
url=https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi
license=(GPL3)
depends=(gc glib2 glibc guile libffi gobject-introspection-runtime)
makedepends=(git gobject-introspection texinfo)
source=(git+${url})
sha256sums=(SKIP)

prepare() {
	cd ${_gitname}
	./bootstrap
}

build() {
	cd ${_gitname}
	./configure --prefix=/usr
	make
}

package() {
	cd ${_gitname}
	make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
}

I have no idea if other configure flags would be useful / important.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-14 22:25:44)

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#1 2023-03-14 20:31:59

compile command is missing?

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Re: compile command is missing?

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