compilation fails on debian 8 when following M2/INSTALL.

[schloegl]

When trying to compile M2 on debian 8, according to the instructions in M2/INSTALL it fails.

Unlike the instruction in M2/INSTALL, also the following configuration options were needed: --enable-build-libraries="givaro fflas_ffpack"

Otherwise it would fail with the following error:

m2.compile.error.txt

Although the packages were installed:

$ dpkg -l|grep givaro ii libgivaro-dev 3.7.2-1 amd64 arithmetic and algebraic computations - development files ii libgivaro1:amd64 3.7.2-1 amd64 arithmetic and algebraic computations $ dpkg -l|grep fflas ii fflas-ffpack 1.6.0-1 amd64 Finite field linear algebra subroutines/package ii fflas-ffpack-common 1.6.0-1 all Finite field linear algebra subroutines/package - common files

I guess this should be fixed in M2/INSTALL.

Unfortunately, that does not seem to be sufficient. There are more errors. Below I've also added the log files for the last runs of make and make check

make.log.txt make.check.log.txt

[DanGrayson]

Which branch are you on?

[DanGrayson]

I suspect your log files include only stdout and not stderr, so they're hard to analyze. But perhaps all that happened was that the checking of the package "AnalyzeSheafOnP1" failed. That shouldn't prevent you from installing and using Macaulay2.

[DanGrayson]

I've just built the master branch under Debian 8. There was one minor problem with the 3rd party program "topcom" not finding the copy of gmp it thought it was building, and I fixed that. All tests succeeded.

[schloegl]

I'm using the branch release-1.9.2

attached are the the output of stderr and stdout make.error.txt make.log.txt

I'll try the master branch as well.

[DanGrayson]

Show me some of those error output files, such as ../../../usr-dist/common/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/example-output/_diff_lp__Matrix_cm__Matrix_rp.errors

I don't understand these errors, since there's no error message preceding them:

Makefile:88: recipe for target '/localhome/schloegl/src/M2/M2/usr-dist/x86_64-Linux-Debian-8.7/lib/Macaulay2/x86_64-Linux-Debian-8.7/Macaulay2Doc/.installed' failed
make[2]: Leaving directory '/localhome/schloegl/src/M2/M2/Macaulay2/packages'
Makefile:20: recipe for target 'all-in-packages' failed
make[1]: Leaving directory '/localhome/schloegl/src/M2/M2/Macaulay2'
GNUmakefile:178: recipe for target 'all-in-Macaulay2' failed
make: Leaving directory '/localhome/schloegl/src/M2/M2'

[schloegl]

$ cat usr-dist/common/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/example-output/_diff_lp__Matrix_cm__Matrix_rp.errors -- -*- M2-comint -*- {* hash: -402041375 *} Segmentation fault

[DanGrayson]

Okay, the M2 binary doesn't work at all. There are various possible reasons for this, and none are easy to determine indirectly. But if you know how to use a debugger, such as gdb, you might be able to figure it out for us. You could start over and compile it in debugging mode to get the symbol tables and debugging information retained in the binary.

[mahrud]

@schloegl is this still an issue for you?