Configure options

[Jack Tearle]

Is there a document to explain the options to configure in order to install gnucobol?
I have the following error, and am looking for a workaround or solution:
Partial config.log
checking for curses define_key function... no
checking for curses mouseinterval function... no
checking for curses has_mouse function... no
configure: Checks for Berkeley DB ...
checking db.h usability... yes
checking db.h presence... yes
checking for db.h... yes
configure: db.h reports version "-Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September 9, 2013)-"
checking for Berkeley DB db.h version >= 4.1... yes (5.3)
checking for Berkeley DB library with version 5.3... no
configure: error: BDB library version 5.3 not found

even though /usr/lib/libdb-5.3.so exists.

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

Have you installed the Development packages as well ?

I.e., BDB-Dev also ncurses-dev

You need to do this for all the libraries used with the Cobol compiler.

Vince

On 29/06/2021 16:51, Jack Tearle wrote:

Is there a document to explain the options to configure in order to
install gnucobol?
I have the following error, and am looking for a workaround or solution:
Partial config.log
checking for curses define_key function... no
checking for curses mouseinterval function... no
checking for curses has_mouse function... no
configure: Checks for Berkeley DB ...
checking db.h usability... yes
checking db.h presence... yes
checking for db.h... yes
configure: db.h reports version "-Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September 9,
2013)-"
checking for Berkeley DB db.h version >= 4.1... yes (5.3)
checking for Berkeley DB library with version 5.3... no
configure: error: BDB library version 5.3 not found

[Simon Sobisch]

Please have a look at config.log and possibly upload it, it should have some more details here.

[Anonymous]

cat config.log

Mod edit: cut'n'copied a full config listing, added the copy as an attachment

Seems that copying the library into the install directory has solved the initial problem.

[Jack Tearle]

Sorry, I wasn't logged in when I posted the above.

[Simon Sobisch]

That's a nice system you have there, please run make test (you may have to download and/or unpack newcob.val to tests/cobol85 manually) - that must pass - and make check, which may show some issues, presenting those nicely in tests/testsuite.log which you can directly upload then.

This would be really cool.

[Jack Tearle]

Following are all the libraries installed:
Berkeley DB 5.3.28 development libs/includes/man for
Berkeley DB 5.3.28 for Definitive on unix as package
Curl 7.58.0 development libs/includes/man for
Expat 2.2.6 development libs/includes/man for
Expat 2.2.6 for Definitive on unix as package
GDB 8.1 for Definitive on unix as package instance
GNU Bin Utilities 2.30 development libs/includes/man
GNU Bin Utilities 2.30 for Definitive on unix as
GNU Compiler Collection (Xinuos GCC) 7.3.0 for
GNU Gettext Package 0.19.8.1 development
GNU Gettext Package 0.19.8.1 for Definitive on unix
GNU LIBICONV - character set conversion library 1.15
GNU LIBICONV - character set conversion library 1.15
GNU MP Library 6.1.2 development libs/includes/man
GNU MP Library 6.1.2 for Definitive on unix as
GNU MPC 1.1.0 development libs/includes/man for
GNU MPC 1.1.0 for Definitive on unix as package
GNU MPFR Library 4.0.2 development libs/includes/man
GNU MPFR Library 4.0.2 for Definitive on unix as
GNU Wget 1.20 for Definitive on unix as package
GNU dbm 1.13 development libs/includes/man for
GNU dbm 1.13 for Definitive on unix as package
GNU tar 1.30 for Definitive on unix as package
Gnu Readline library, version 7.0 development
Gnu Readline library, version 7.0 for Definitive on
PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expression library)
PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expression library)
Python 2.7.14 development libs/includes/man for
Python 2.7.14 for OpenServer6D on unix as package
Runtime Libraries for GNU Compiler Collection
SATA AHCI HBA Driver on unix as package instance
SQLite 3.20.1 development libs/includes/man for
SQLite 3.20.1 for Definitive on unix as package
Tcl 8.5 development libs/includes/man for Definitive
Tcl 8.5 for Definitive on unix as package instance
Tk 8.5 development libs/includes/man for Definitive
Tk 8.5 for Definitive on unix as package instance
Tk 8.5 for Definitive on unix as package instance
XZ Utils 5.2.3 development libs/includes/man for
c-ares 1.13.0 development libs/includes/man for
isl 0.18 development libs/includes/man for
isl 0.18 for Definitive on unix as package instance
libffi (Foreign Function Interface) 3.0.13
libffi (Foreign Function Interface) 3.0.13 for
libssh2 - SSH2 library 1.8.0 development
libxml2 2.9.4 development libs/includes/man for
libxml2 2.9.4 for Definitive on unix as package

From the reading that I did on the GNU site, is curses as supplied for Unix srv5 the same as ncurses which appears to be a clone of the srv5 product.
Also, there is a configure option to use curses instead of ncurses.
I only have this system until Jul 22, unless XINUOS see fit to give me an extension.

[Simon Sobisch]

The configure output says:

error: BDB library version 5.3 not found

We should adjust that message, because according to config.log the issue is that the library cannot be successfully linked (libdb5.3 and libdb are tried, both have the same issue):

configure:17772: cc -o conftest -O2   conftest.c  -ldb-5.3 >&5
UX:acomp: WARNING: "conftest.c", line 95: statement not reached
Undefined  first referenced
symbol        in file
pthread_condattr_init               libdb-5.3.so
pthread_mutexattr_init              libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared       libdb-5.3.so
pthread_condattr_setpshared         libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_wrlock               libdb-5.3.so
pthread_mutexattr_destroy           libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlockattr_init             libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_init                 libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlockattr_destroy          libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock            libdb-5.3.so
pthread_mutexattr_setpshared        libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_trywrlock            libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_unlock               libdb-5.3.so
sched_yield                         libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_rdlock               libdb-5.3.so
pthread_condattr_destroy            libdb-5.3.so
pthread_rwlock_destroy              libdb-5.3.so
UX:ld: ERROR: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest

configure:17772: cc -o conftest -O2   conftest.c  -ldb >&5
Undefined  first referenced
symbol        in file
thr_yield                           libdb.so
UX:ld: ERROR: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest

To link to Berkeley DB on this machine you need to additionally link to pthread.

I suggest the following:

configure LIBS="-pthread" (that's the "common" variant) and if that doesn't work configure LIBS="-lpthread"

[Jack Tearle]

bash-4.3# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --build=x86 --with-curses=curses LIBS="-pthread"
This created a Makefile, then attached is the output of make.

[Simon Sobisch]

That looks strange.Pplease upload config.log and make.log created as follows

cd libcob
make clean
make 1>make.log 2>&1

and we can check further.
Side question: I assume that make in cobc works fine until the linking step where it says it misses libcob, is that correct?