ClearSilver doesn't compile

[sjlongland]

On Gentoo Linux (security hardened with musl libc).

gallery ~/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0 # ./autogen.sh
aclocal-1.15: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in:511: warning: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS: you should use literals
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1097: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from...
configure.in:511: the top level
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader-2.69:
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows one to define a template without
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader-2.69:
autoheader-2.69: WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader-2.69:                [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
autoheader-2.69:
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
autoheader-2.69: WARNING: documentation.
configure.in:511: warning: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS: you should use literals
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1097: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from...
configure.in:511: the top level
configure.in:511: warning: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS: you should use literals
../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:1097: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from...
configure.in:511: the top level
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
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checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ar... ar
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checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes  
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for Neotonic Paths... not found   
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
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checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
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checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no
checking whether pthreads work without any flags... yes
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checking for apache apxs... found /usr/bin/apxs
checking for apache 1.3.x... ./configure: line 5370: /usr/bin/httpd: No such file or directory
found  - disabling module build
checking for python includes... found /usr/include/python2.7
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checking for csharp path... not found
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating rules.mk
config.status: WARNING:  'rules.mk.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating cs_config.h
gallery ~/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0 # make
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** Building Dependencies
** OSNAME: Linux
** (done)
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/util'
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** Building Dependencies
** OSNAME: Linux
** (done)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/util'
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/cs'
*******************************************
** Building Dependencies
** OSNAME: Linux
** (done)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/cs'
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/cgi'
*******************************************
** Building Dependencies
** OSNAME: Linux
** (done)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/cgi'
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/python'
*******************************************
** Building Dependencies
** OSNAME: Linux
** (done)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/python'
make -C /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser PREFIX=/usr/local || exit 1;
make[1]: *** /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:23: /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser/.libs/libstreamhtmlparser.a] Error 1
gallery ~/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0 # make install
make -C /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser PREFIX=/usr/local || exit 1;
make[1]: *** /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:23: /root/clearsilver-clearsilver-0.11.0/streamhtmlparser/.libs/libstreamhtmlparser.a] Error 1

streamhtmlparser seems to be missing. Is there some step I missed?

[mvaranda]

Also tried to build and also error building "streamhtmlparser". I removed it from Makefile and got other errors even in heade files (sysntax): gcc -g -O2 -pthread -Wall -I.. -I/src -fPIC -o csparse.o -c csparse.c In file included from csparse.c:39:0: csparse.c: In function ‘read_auto_status’: ../util/neo_misc.h:216:75: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token ne_logf(PRETTY_FUNCTION,FILE,LINE,NE_LOG_WARN,f,VA_ARGS) ^ csparse.c:527:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘ne_warn’ ne_warn("Ignoring attempt to change value of Config.AutoEscape\n"); ^ ../rules.mk:154: recipe for target 'csparse.o' failed make: *** [csparse.o] Error 1

I guess this project is broken. Sad... it was very promising for my embedded application.

[bkylerussell]

@mvaranda, what's your gcc version? I hit a similar compile error a while back and proposed c55890f, but I was on clearsilver v0.10.5. I closed #12 because it looked like the newer version was doing something differently, but maybe it is still needed. I just now realized the same check I changed in c55890f still occurs in v0.11.0, but in util/neo_misc.h. Someone has added a defined (COMPILER_GCC4) condition in a775aac, but I'm not familiar with that define and I don't see where it comes from.

[bkylerussell]

@mvaranda I rebased my change and submitted PR #18. I tried building master on my Mac and still encountered the problem.

Apple LLVM version 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.2)

[bkylerussell]

To respond to @sjlongland's original issue, yes, streamhtmlparser is a hard dependency. Unless you specify a configure option pointing to streamhtmlparser's directory, it will automatically expect to find a clone of streamhtmlparser's source in clearsilver's top source directory, which is the error you were experiencing. This should probably be a configure error if the directory doesn't exist, instead of waiting for compile-time.

[mvaranda]

Thanks a lot Kyle. I had to move on with my project using different solutions. I am pretty sure more people will benefit of your fix. Best regards.

[sjlongland]

The INSTALL and README documentation makes no mention of this. Like @mvaranda I've now moved on, opting to re-write the photo gallery application I originally wrote in C with a replacement in Python (using Tornado) as it looked like clearsilver was no longer in development.

Plus my needs have changed, I'm no longer running my applications on a second-hand Pentium III 550MHz server, the modern frameworks aren't such a burden now on modern hardware, so re-writing the application in a new framework was an opportunity to try something newer.

[blong42]

Updated INSTALL to refer to streamhtmlparser, sorry for the late response.