I am trying to build FreeBSD from source to see how it works. I googled how to do it, and most of the websites explaining how to build the world tell me to run this command inside the directory of the source code:
sudo make -j1 buildworld KERNCONF=MODEDKERNEL -DNO_CLEAN
For some reason, I keep getting this error...
make: invalid option -- 'D'
make: invalid option -- 'N'
Anyone know how to fix this? The Makefile can be found here
We don't need to see the makefile, because this error is being printed by make due to an invalid command line argument which means it's never even opening the makefile before it fails.
The reason is that -D, etc. are not valid command line options to GNU make. If you run man make (or look online for the GNU make manual) you'll see that -D is not listed as a valid option.
My suspicion is that when the websites you are reading are suggesting that you run make, they mean you should run FreeBSD make, which does support a -D option: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)
You are trying to run this using GNU make, which does not have that option.
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I am learning to program in Python and Rust. On different versions of Ubuntu these programs compiled and ran perfectly. Now that I have a dedicated Fedora 30 KDE system, every time I try and build a program, I get a warning: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
I have tried looking this up and have re/installed anything GTK on my system. The programs otherwise function well, but no menus are drawn. I was also trying things in GNOME and hit the same thing.
I am also using QT. Those programs also build and run fine, but again, no menu.
I'm going bonkers with this. Any help is appreciated.
The appmenu-gtk module is not packaged on Fedora. (GNOME doesn't support them anyway.)
The real questions are:
Why is it configured to load? Did you copy or share GTK config files from an Ubuntu system? You should remove this module from your settings.
Even with improper configs I don't believe this should result in menus not appearing. It should just fail to load and work as normal. How is your application using menus?
I finally got so fed up with getting this error that I went full nerd-diagnosis, and ran this command to find out which file contained the errant reference to the appmenu-gtk (the package that would provide this is not installable on my system either).
(Replace "dolphin" with the command that is giving you the error.)
strace -e openat,access dolphin 2>&1 |grep -v ENOENT |awk '/appmenu-gtk/ {exit} !/appmenu-gtk/ {print}'|cut -d '"' -f2 |sort|uniq|xargs grep appmenu-gtk 2>/dev/null
This will then give you a list of files which contain the line appmenu-gtk, and in my case it was ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. From there I just commented it out, and that gets rid of the error message (not sure if this will fix your problem of not having any menus, but you might just be able to edit that line to fix it in another way if commenting it out doesn't work).
I use autoconf to regenerate the configure file, it works. But when I execute the generated configure file by ./configure, there are some error messages like
./configure: line 3713: syntax error near unexpected token `blas'
./configure: line 3713: ` withval=$with_blas; R_ARG_USE(blas)'
I googled and found that blas is a library, but it still gives the error messages after installing. I have the autoconf with version "autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69" installed on my Mac, and what I am trying to compile is the R source https://svn.r-project.org/R/.
I have run both autoconf -f and autoreconf -f to try to regenerate configure file which has been generated successfully. But, when I run ./configure the error happens again.
The error messages say syntax error near unexpected token blas and withval=$with_blas; R_ARG_USE(blas). I think the problem maybe the unknown function R_ARG_USE. I grep R_ARG_USE in the code base and find that it is defined in the file m4/R.m4:
AC_DEFUN([R_ARG_USE],
[if test "${withval}" = no; then
use_$1=no
else
use_$1=yes
fi
])# R_ARG_USE
Does that mean when I am running autoconf or autoreconf I miss something to let it know the existence of m4/R.m4 ?
I have been stuck here for almost three days, any helps will be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
It seems I have solved this problem. I reinstall the gnu m4 using brew install m4 and the problem solved.
After running autoreconf -i -f, I can get the correct configure file and the R source can be compiled.
Maybe it's the wrong version m4 I have got in Mac.
I'm using the tar command in UNIX to perform backups of particular directories. However, some directories contain files/sub-directories which the current user doesn't have any read permissions on. As a result the tar command is returning a non 0 exit code.
I came across the following modifier in the man pages '--ignore-failed-read', which suppresses the non 0 exit code when encountering files it cannot read. However, whenever I try using it I get the error 'unknown function modifier'.
Could anyone help me out here?
my tar command looks something like this:
tar --create --ignore-failed-read --file=test.tar my_dir
Your command seems to be perfectly valid and I don't see any typos/mistakes.
To be absolutely sure, I just tried it on my VM running under 32 bit Debian 7.1 (wheezy) with stock kernel 3.2.0.4. As I suspected, archive has been created successfuly (the only change was, of course, the name of the source directory). I also checked version of my tar with
tar --version
which gave me following output:
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
First of all, you should check this info. If you get the same (with possible difference in version number) output, that's fine. If not (or version that seems much older), it's possible, that you are using tar, which simply doesn't support this feature.
Also, you can check, if your tar really DOES support mentioned flag. To do this, type into console:
tar --help | grep ignore-failed-read
You should see something like this:
--ignore-failed-read do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files
If output stays empty, that means this version of tar does not know this flag at all.
See if any of the above helps.
Another option that might work better in this case is --warning=no-file-changed.
tar --warning=no-file-changed -czf backup.tgz dir1 dir2
--warning controls the display of warning messages. You can add no- to the message keyword to suppress it. So in this case no-file-changed suppresses the file-changed warning.
c.f. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_27.html
I am working on Qt 4.7.2 on Windows. I have generated Makefile, Makefile.Debug and Makefile.Release. However, when I try to use mingw32-make to build an executable, I get the following error:
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug all
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Qt/4.7.2/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql'
Makefile.Debug:61: *** missing separator. Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.7.2/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql'
mingw32-make: *** [debug-all] Error 2
Obviously this answer is late, but I'm answering it for posterity... this hit me today.
Frank Osterfeld almost certainly had it right. Not sure how you generated the makefiles, but they're probably nmake makefiles, not mingw makefiles. You can tell by looking at the top of Makefile.Debug. If you see "CXX = cl", not "CXX = g++", then that's your problem.
In my case, I hit this error when trying to compile the Qt SDK itself. Long story short: I needed to specify "-platform win32-g++" on the configure command line (it defaulted to win32-msvc).
"Missing separator" almost always means you have a line that should begin with a tab that instead begins with a space.
If you'd actually shown us what was at line 61 of the Makefile.debug file, we could give you a better answer. "Missing separator" is make's version of "syntax error". It basically means make saw a line in the makefile that it couldn't figure out.
One reason could be, as William Pursell mentions, that you have spaces introducing your recipe lines but there are plenty of other reasons. Maybe you forgot the ":" between the target and prerequisite, or the "=" in a variable assignment. There are other possibilities.
I usually work on visual c++ 2010 for creating console applications as programming problems. There is this submission which requires me to give the source for the file "Makefile" by some command in unix environment
all:
g++ program.cc -o program
since i don't use unix and have never created a "makefile". I don't know how to make this submission. I have read about a makefile which is supposed to give the directions dependencies etc for compiling the program. I am using the header files iostream string and iterator in the program. i have tried the "all:" command . The bash returns command not found.
Can someone help me with this submission? The code is ready but the only thing stopping for submitting is this "makefile". please include the shell commands as well.
You're missing newline and two tabs (yes, you read right, not spaces) after the all: line, something like this:
all:
g++ helloworld.cc -o helloworld
To invoke make, type make in the directory with the Makefile. Dependencies on system headers are usually not considered, if your code has just one file, you can safely ignore that.