[q-lang-users] A question and a plea for help.

[Andrew B. <an...@vo...>]

First the question.  I see in the archives for q-lang-devel that someone  
was working on amd64 bit support.  Does this work?  Has anyone tried?  Is  
there interest in me working on it?

Second, the plea for help.  I try to compile on my Ubuntu (don't ask)  
Hoary Hedgehog (I think) on AMD64, and get:

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Making all in readline-4.2
/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2'
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc  -DRL_LIBRARY_VERSION='"4.2"'  
-g -O  -L./lib/termcap -o libreadline.la   readline.lo funmap.lo  
keymaps.lo vi_mode.lo parens.lo rltty.lo complete.lo bind.lo isearch.lo  
display.lo signals.lo util.lo kill.lo undo.lo macro.lo input.lo  
callback.lo terminal.lo xmalloc.lo history.lo histsearch.lo histexpand.lo  
histfile.lo nls.lo search.lo shell.lo savestring.lo tilde.lo compat.lo  
-ltermcap
./libtool: line 1775: cd: ./lib/termcap: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `./lib/termcap'
make[3]: *** [libreadline.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2'
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If I "cd readline-4.2;mkdir -p lib/termcap" and make again, it gets past  
this message, but later gives me:

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Making all in src
/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/src'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -DYEAR='"2004"'  
-DSYSINFO='"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"'  
-DQPATH='".:/usr/local/share/q/lib:/usr/local/lib/q"'  
-DQEXEC='"/usr/local/bin/q"' -DLIBTOOL='"/usr/local/lib/q/libtool"'  
-DCC='"gcc"' -DREADLINE_LIBRARY -g -O2   -o libqint.la -rpath  
/usr/local/lib -no-undefined -version-info 2:0:1 -dlpreopen force -dlopen  
../modules/clib/clib.la       -dlopen ../modules/octave/octave.la     
libqint_la-q.lo libqint_la-qm.lo libqint_la-qmcode.lo libqint_la-qmfuns.lo  
libqint_la-qmmatch.lo libqint_la-qmprint.lo libqint_la-qmparse.lo  
libqint_la-qmlex.lo libqint_la-qbase.lo libqint_la-sys.lo  
libqint_la-random.lo libqint_la-getopt.lo libqint_la-getopt1.lo  
../libq/libq.la -lfl -lgmp ../libltdl/libltdlc.la -lpthread  
../readline-4.2/libreadline.la  -lcrypt -lutil -lnsl -lm
libtool: link: warning: `-dlopen self' is ignored for libtool libraries
gcc -shared  .libs/libqint_la-q.o .libs/libqint_la-qm.o  
.libs/libqint_la-qmcode.o .libs/libqint_la-qmfuns.o  
.libs/libqint_la-qmmatch.o .libs/libqint_la-qmprint.o  
.libs/libqint_la-qmparse.o .libs/libqint_la-qmlex.o  
.libs/libqint_la-qbase.o .libs/libqint_la-sys.o .libs/libqint_la-random.o  
.libs/libqint_la-getopt.o .libs/libqint_la-getopt1.o -Wl,--whole-archive  
../libltdl/.libs/libltdlc.a ../readline-4.2/.libs/libreadline.a  
-Wl,--no-whole-archive  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/libq/.libs  
-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib ../libq/.libs/libq.so -lfl  
/usr/lib/libgmp.so -ldl -lpthread  
-L/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/readline-4.2/lib/termcap -ltermcap -lcrypt  
-lutil -lnsl -lm  -Wl,-soname -Wl,libqint.so.1 -o .libs/libqint.so.1.1.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libqint.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrewb/src/q-6.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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Anyone know which package I'm missing, or what I need to tell configure to  
make this work?

I consider myself a reasonably competent programmer, but I really  
#!@@#%'ing hate libtool and refuse to go near it on moral and  
philosophical grounds.  (No, really I'm just lazy and a bit afraid of it,  
but the other one sounds better.)

-andrew

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