Issue with BOINC at ./configure

[islevegan]

I am *not* a developer and have virtually no experience compiling.

I'm following the direction here

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCode

to check out 5_10, 6_8, 6_10, and 6_10_24 but they all give similar errors, if not the same

once done with svn i follow the basic instructions here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BuildSystem

but having various issues. I tried to attach the config.log file but it says extention log is not allowed on this forum, so i added .txt and it says that is not allowed either

Anyway, some of the configuration options may be helpful but I have no idea what to use.

Any suggestions?

[matejcik]

so how about posting some context, e.g. the last twenty lines of ./configure ouput, including the error that happened?
don't worry, you can do that many times over until all your issues are resolved ;e)

[he_the_great]

It seems BOINC is C++. I haven't gotten a C++ application to compile. Just installing the g++ package doesn't work. you have to remove gcc then install g++-symlinks and then gcc-symlinks. I usually ended up installing more things and my system no longer boots. I haven't tried only getting g++ working, but I think it is a moot point until we get a repo that doesn't kill the system.

Anyone else had success/failures with C++ apps?

[Gary13579]

Wait what? C++ is missing? That's quite a shame :\.

Your system is probably breaking because of a glibc upgrade, btw. It's one of the files in the repo that if upgraded breaks the OS. Installing g++ or glibc++ is likely upgrading glibc.

[he_the_great]

Wait what? C++ is missing? That's quite a shame :\.

Your system is probably breaking because of a glibc upgrade, btw. It's one of the files in the repo that if upgraded breaks the OS. Installing g++ or glibc++ is likely upgrading glibc.

While that might be true, I can't even install g++ without removing gcc (conflicting links). I wish we had aptitude so that I'd know what my package manager was doing.

I should mention that if a cross-compiling environment is set up, you should be able to compile there and use the application on the TB.

[torpor]

ipkg update
ipkg install libc6-dev
ipkg install gcc
ipkg install g++
ipkg install binutils
ipkg install vim-full
ipkg install gdb

.. done all that? i am compiling C++ apps on my touchbook just fine.

[he_the_great]

Well I'll give it a try, but I know vim-full doesn't exist which makes me wonder if it really would work.

[torpor]

oops, sorry .. vim-full doesn't have anything to do with your compiler setup, its just my preferred editor for development .. the rest should help though. Let me know, I've got my TB in front of me now, anything else that goes wrong I can probably walk you through it ..

[nprnncbl]

I haven't tried BOINC, but I am having some related problems with compiling on the TB, which have to do with divergence between stock Angstrom and AI OS. Basically, there are a number of packages with different versions between the two releases (usually newer in Angstrom), and once you start upgrading some packages, like those required for compiling, some libraries no longer match, so then you upgrade those, and then some application has a mismatch, etc.

So now my system is in a somewhat mixed-up state, and gets more mixed up each time I try to compile something else.

[he_the_great]

Let me know, I've got my TB in front of me now, anything else that goes wrong I can probably walk you through it ..

g++ still isn't found, "sh: g++: not found," but it claimed to have been configured. But it didn't render the system useless.

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ipkg upgrade g++

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Nothing to be done