error installing libwww

Jason Kingan

2003-02-11 16:16:55 UTC

Mildred,

The problem you are having below is because of the --prefix option given to
configure. It appears that libwww wants a full path for installation, which
is quite common. Instead of configuring with --prefix=. , you should try
--prefix=/home/mildred/tmp or something similar if all you want to do is grab
the libs and whatnot.

Hope this helps,
Jason Kingan
Century Software

Post by Mildred Frisco
Hi! I would like to ask help in building libwww for stroongarm. My
project is to build the viewml binary for strongarm. I've already built
jpeglib, microwindows and flnx. I had problems cross compiling libwww but
i think they're solved now but I have errors with make install in order to
install them to the correct directories. Here are the commands i used in
compiling libwww. I created the directory
/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm, and under this directory i
cross-compiled libwww .....
-B' RANLIB=arm-linux-ranlib make CPPFLAGS+=/armdir/usr/local/arm/include
CFLAGS+=/armdir/usr/local/arm/include -e
(note: I also set CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS so the program will look to the
arm-linux directory for header files. what other way can I do this ?)
Making install in config
make[1]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/config'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/config'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/config' make[1]: Leaving
directory `/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/config' Making install
in modules
make[1]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules' Making install in expat
make[2]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat'
Making install in xmltok
make[3]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat/xmltok'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat/xmltok'
/bin/sh ../../../../config/mkinstalldirs ./lib
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libxmltok.la
./lib/libxmltok.la
libtool: install: `./lib' must be an absolute directory name
Try `libtool --help --mode=install' for more information.
make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat/xmltok'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat/xmltok'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules/expat'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/arm-linux-projects/w3c-libwww-5.2.8/arm/modules'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
If I have installed the library successfully, how do i set the
configuration / make alterations in viewml to compile it and point the new
location of the
libwww files ?
With regards to setting the header files directory, is there another way
than
including it in CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS ? I was thinking of using
LD_LIBRARY_PATH but I've heard that it is not advisable to use. Can you
tell
me more about this and how to use it ?
Thank you very much
Mildred
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