[Tack-devel] Trouble Installing ACK

[Arun R. <aru...@sl...>]

Hi!

I am involved in a project to build a backend for a forth based
microprocessor. Since I am new to compiler design, my project guide has
suggested use of ACK as it has a stack based intermediate representation
EM.

I am trying to install ACK in my linux system. Here is what I have
done...

1) downloaded and extracted ack-5.6.tar.bz2 to my home directory.
2) created a directory ack in tmp (/tmp/ack) to be used as configuration
directory.
3) from the directory /tmp/ack I ran the first script (as suggested in
the install manual) and gave the following options

a) ACK source root /home/username/ack-5.6/
b) root of configuration tree /tmp/ack/
c) ACK binary root /home/username/Project/ACK
d) system type ANY
e) running on system : yes
f) Default machine : em22 (EM with 2byte wide integers and pointers)
g) Unix target system SYS_V
h) limit installation : no
i) Library : libsysV_2

And then I run the INSTALL script that is generated. However, I get the
following error

cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/ack//lang/cem/cemcom.ansi/Parameters': No such file or directory

I did some investigation to find that the only directory that is created
by the INSTALL script is the (/tmp/ack/)bin with the ack_sys, cp_dir,
create_dir, mk_makefile and TakeAction executable script.

Interestingly the size of the file dir_list in /tmp/ack/ is 0 bytes.
A little more digging into mk_config script in the first directory of
the source root, it has the line :

cd $SRC_HOME
find . -type d -perm -555 -print > $CONFIG/dir_list

I tried the "find" command line manually and saw that due to the "perm
-555" option, no directory list is generated!! Evidently, because of the
lack of any entries in the dir_list file, no tree structure is created
in the configuration root and hence all copy and move or create
operation fail.

Could you please confirm that "perm -555" is indeed the correct option?
If so, what should be done to get a correct installation?

Thanks in advance
Arun Ramachandran

Student
Institute for System Level Integration
Livingston
UK