Can't build source on OSX

[kramer65]

I'm trying to build libpff on OSX from the latest sources. As far as I know I've got all dependencies installed correctly, but I now get an error when running make:

$ make
Making all in include
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in common
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in libcstring
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../common  -I../include -I../common -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -Wall -MT libcstring_support.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libcstring_support.Tpo -c -o libcstring_support.lo libcstring_support.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../common -I../include -I../common -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -MT libcstring_support.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libcstring_support.Tpo -c libcstring_support.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/libcstring_support.o
In file included from libcstring_support.c:25:
./libcstring_definitions.h:48:37: warning: missing terminating '"' character [-Winvalid-pp-token]
#define LIBCSTRING_VERSION_STRING                       " [20160425],
                                                        ^
./libcstring_definitions.h:49:1: warning: missing terminating '"' character [-Winvalid-pp-token]
"
^
./libcstring_definitions.h:49:1: error: expected identifier or '('
2 warnings and 1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [libcstring_support.lo] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

A paste of the full output for ./configure is here: http://pastebin.com/Q4QGV2ga

Does anybody know what could possibly be wrong here? All tips are welcome!

[joachimmetz]

As far as I know I've got all dependencies installed correctly

How did install all dependencies?

Note that how to build is described here

[kramer65]

@joachimmetz - I first installed the dependencies using brew. Since that obviously didn't work, I just installed the dependencies using the suggested method with macports. They all installed without a problem, so then I ran ./autogen.sh, which ends in:

glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
glibtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
.libtoolize:   error: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I m4
autoreconf: glibtoolize failed with exit status: 1

So I then tried on a simple Ubuntu server (on both 14.04 and 16.04). There I immediately have a problem with installing the dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install aclocal autoconf automake libtoolize pkg-config
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package aclocal
E: Unable to locate package libtoolize

I tried continuing without installing aclocal and libtoolize, but when running ./autogen.sh it ends in:

configure.ac:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Any ideas how I can continue on either OSX or Linux?

[joachimmetz]

Any ideas how I can continue on either OSX or Linux?

FYI the Travis-CI build does directly build from source: https://travis-ci.org/libyal/libpff

.libtoolize: error: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I m4

Google search for this error, some explanations indicate that there might be carriage return where they don't belong due to the configuration of the git client.

E: Unable to locate package aclocal E: Unable to locate package libtoolize

Find the right package names that contain these tools, try build-essential

I tried continuing without installing aclocal and libtoolize, but when running ./autogen.sh it ends in:

You cannot

[kramer65]

I looked at the travis.yml file and I have no idea how it can build without installing the needed dependencies.

After some fiddling around, I finally did manage to get it working on 14.04 though. For this I had to install the following packages:

sudo apt install git autotools-dev automake autoconf libtool pkg-config make python-dev autopoint

Maybe you could possibly add it to the docs?

For any future reference (both others and myself), these are all the commands that I ran:

sudo apt install git autotools-dev automake autoconf libtool pkg-config make python-dev autopoint
git clone https://github.com/libyal/libpff.git
cd libpff/
./synclibs.sh
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-python
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

[joachimmetz]

I looked at the travis.yml file and I have no idea how it can build without installing the needed dependencies.

They come pre installed ;)

Maybe you could possibly add it to the docs?

I can and will, thx for providing the list in the issue. The idea is that most people use the distribution source package, but I'll add that to a documentation update as well.