Re: [htdig] Re: installation problem: make dies on os_dir.c

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Brian H. Marston:
> Jim Cole wrote:
> > I think the next step would be to check those files and
> > see if 'DIR' is in fact defined somewhere, and if it is wrapped in some
> > sort of #ifdef that might be excluding it.
> 
> 
> >From /usr/include/dirent.h:
> 
> /* This is the data type of directory stream objects.
>    The actual structure is opaque to users.  */
> typedef struct __dirstream DIR;
> 
> 
> Jim Cole wrote:
> > You should also try searching the ht://Dig site for 'DIR undeclared'.
> > There are a few other posts involving the same error message. The
> > implication seems to be that they were due to missing packages, but
> > whether that is the problem you are running into, I don't know.
> 
> Based on Gilles Detillieux's advice at
> http://www.htdig.org/htdig-dev/1999/03/0104.html:
> 
>   rpm -q returns:
>     package egcs-c++ is not installed
>     libstdc++-devel-2.96-113
>     glibc-devel-2.2.5-42
>     package kernel-headers is not installed
>     glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.16
> 
> According to
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/release-notes/x86/,
> the glibc-kernheaders package replaced the kernel-headers package in Red Hat
> Linux 7.3.
> 
> Is the problem that I don't have the egcs-c++ package installed?  If so, can
> I fix the problem without root access?

The egcs-c++ was part of Red Hat 6.x releases.  Red Hat 7.x and 8.0 went
back to using gcc-c++.  Your ./configure output shows that it found a
working c++ so I don't think this is the problem.

However, your ./configure output shows a whole lot of entries labeled
"(cached)", which leads me to suspect that this wasn't a clean
installation straight from the original htdig-3.1.6.tar.gz distribution.
Can you try reinstalling from scratch?

I've certainly had no difficulty building this package on Red Hat 7.2,
so I don't see why 7.3 would pose a problem.

As for your request for pre-compiled binaries, you could always download
the "rh72" RPMs from http://www.htdig.org/files/binaries/ and install
them even without root access using "rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -idmv".
This will unpack the whole thing under your current directory.
You'd then need to use the -c option to all the programs as the
compiled-in CONFIG_DIR setting wouldn't be appropriate for your setup.
You'd also need to run htsearch within a wrapper script, as described
in http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.30, but you'd need to do that with
any pre-compiled binary of htsearch unless it was pre-configured to your
specifications (which you never specified).  It's always better if you
can compile your own.

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)