Re: [LMMS-devel] Make Install error & libtool

[William S. <bil...@hb...>]

William Steidtmann wrote:

> If you attempt to compile (make) LMMS and then make install (or as I did 
> using checkinstall ) it may fail like this (also note that I configured 
> with --prefix=/usr )
>
> ...
> /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libaudiofileprocessor.a 
> /usr/lib/lmms/libaudiofileprocessor.a
> /usr/bin/install: setting permissions for 
> `/usr/lib/lmms/libaudiofileprocessor.a': No such file or directory
> chmod 644 /usr/lib/lmms/libaudiofileprocessor.a
> ranlib /usr/lib/lmms/libaudiofileprocessor.a
> ranlib: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: No more 
> archived files
> make[5]: *** [install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bill/src/lmms-SVN493/plugins/audio_file_processor'
> make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bill/src/lmms-SVN493/plugins/audio_file_processor'
> make[3]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/bill/src/lmms-SVN493/plugins/audio_file_processor'
> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bill/src/lmms-SVN493/plugins'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bill/src/lmms-SVN493'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> ****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
>
> Cleaning up...OK
>
> Bye.
>
> This error is apparently a bug (?) in libtool (I used 1.5.22 ), and I 
> found that it can be worked around by simply creating the lmms lib 
> directory like this:
>
> cd /usr/lib
> sudo mkdir lmms
>
> Again note my configure --prefix was not the default.  Another way to 
> work around this is to have a previous LMMS installed which means the 
> /usr/lib/lmms directory already exists.  Or at least this is the case 
> with the Debian (Ubuntu) package.
>
> Bill
>
>   

I made it sound like this is a "make install" problem, but this is 
purely a checkinstall problem(s).  I found at least 3 nasty issues:

1) checkinstall needs the /usr/lib/lmms directory as noted above.

Workaround: See Above.

2) It leaves a bunch of garbage in the /usr/lib/lmms directory with file 
names like stXXXX*

Workaround: Clean up the mess.

3) It tries to package/install insane files like /usr/bin/ld into the deb.

Workaround: pass the --inspect flag to checkinstall and it will put you 
into vi and you will (probably) find the first few files listed as:

/usr
/usr/bin/g++
/usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/lmms
/usr/bin/nm
/usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/collect2
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/crtbeginS.o
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/crtendS.o
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib/crti.o
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib/crtn.o

which you can change to (in vi to delete a line put the cursor on the 
line and hit d twice)::

/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/lmms
/usr/lib
[keep all the rest of the lmms stuff]

Then [colon]wq to write and quit out of vi.

Or you could just not use checkinstall for anything... :)   But it is 
nice to have apt package management.

Bill

P.S. The checkinstall website indicates that the author is aware of 
these problems and is working on it.