Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

[mechanism]

I have downloaded the latest released version of libgpod from the gtkpod website and have been trying to install the tarball. I've extracted and configured as directed in the instructions but at the bottom of the configure routine (shown below) there is an error regarding "perl"? What is this and how do I find and install it?

(see the very last line)

Also, typing "make" returns the following

mrmsudawgs@closet:~/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.



Thanks!

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for intltool >= 0.21... 0.36.2 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

[claydoh]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

you are probably missing a needed library somewhere. You can get most if not all using apt:

sudo apt-get build-dep gtkpod

The version in feisty is not too old, really so the dependencies should be the same for the latest version of gtkpod.

The package that you need to fix that particular configure error is probably libxml-parser-perl

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

I believe the version of gtkpod in the repository is 0.98 but I had to bump up to 0.99 in order to have tag editing capabilities for video podcasts. Well, let me correct that - I had previously been running gtkpod-aac from the repository because I read somewhere that that particular version supported video podcasts (5th gen iPod video, 80 gig). I've never actually tried the 0.98 version in the repository.

Well, heck...I guess I could give that a try. Boy, iTunes for Linux sure would be nice. Yeah, I know.

M

[claydoh]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

my point, which I did not make very clear is that you should be able to install all the needed build dependencies using the method I noted above, and that the deps shouldn't be different from the version in the repos and the newer version you are trying to build. So it should be pretty easy compile.

I neither own an ipod, nor use itunes, and don't plan to, but that's another subject entirely. Until I get a video capable device, I will probably stick to Amarok myself

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

You were correct about the missing library. However, me being a noob, I may have screwed something else...

I downloaded the library you suggested from the repository. No problem. Installed just fine. Then, I typed ./configure which ran this long process. At the same time, uninstalled gtkpod by using Adept.

The configuration seemed to be going well but it ended with two errors. I ignored them, as all noobs do, and typed "make install" which also ended in two errors. Below is the hash.

Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks for the help!!

gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/test-init-ipod test-init-ipod.o /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.
so -lm /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libgl
ib-2.0.so ../src/.libs/libgpod.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
creating test-init-ipod
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/tests'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/po'
file=`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && -o $file de.po
/bin/sh: -o: not found
make[2]: *** [de.gmo] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
mrmsudawgs@closet:~/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0$ make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/src'
test -z "/usr/local/lib" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/lib"
/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'libgpod.la' '/usr/loc
al/lib/libgpod.la'
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libgpod.so.3.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3.0.0
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3.0.0':
Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/src'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

...in addtion to the above question - could I have installed the newest version of gtkpod on top of the older version? Being a Windows users, I'm accustom to uninstalling the old software before installing the new which may or may not be necessary in Linux.

Thanks again.

M

[claydoh]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

well, if configure ends with errors, that should be looked at first

Nothing was set-up for the compile if configure didn't finish

To properly compile, you need to (basically) follow these steps:

• uninstall any version you already have installed
• Make sure you have all the needed deps, libraries, and tools installed
• run './configure' - use './configure --help' for some more options and info
• Resolve any errors found during configure - usually a missing libarary or -dev package
• run configure again, and repeat the above if necessary, until there are no errors
• run 'make'
• if needed , find out what strange error message mean (google ) and hopefully fix the problem
• run 'make' again
• If all is good and error free, then run 'sudo make install'

Often you have to tell configure where your base libraries, etc are, so you may need to run configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr

to get it to set up the build properly

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

• Make sure you have all the needed deps, libraries, and tools installed

So, how does one;

(1) Determine what deps, libraries, and tools are needed?
(2) Determine if those things are already installed on one's system?

It amazes me how you guys know and understand this stuff.

Making progress.

Thanks again.

[claydoh]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

1) (a)read the documentation from the related website, or poke around the source files for a readme file or similar
(b) running configure will tell you what is missing or what it can't find, though exact package names can be troublesome to figure out
(c) in this case, as I mentioned in my first post: 'sudo apt-get build-dep gtkpod' will tell apt to pull in most if not all the things needed, then ./configure will help fill the holes (if any)

2) See (1b) and (1c)

It can be time consuming and a little frustrating at first, but it gets easier as you learn

And who says I understand it all
Since coming to Kubuntu (and the debian style of repository and package management, I seldom compile stuff anymore.

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with "make" while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

Ok...I've made it through
./configure
make
make install

but now I can't determine how to launch gtkpod. I've checked all the KDE menus (multimedia, internet, etc..) and gtkpod is not listed. I typed "whereis gtkpod" and it returned "gtkpod:"

Below is the hash at the end of the "make file" command. No errors appeard so I'm not sure if it is installed or not. Any ideas?

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs/reference'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs/reference'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/docs'
Making install in bindings
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0/bindings'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'libgpod-1.0.pc' '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgpod-1.0.pc'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrmsudawgs/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0'

mrmsudawgs@closet:~/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0$ whereis gtkpod
gtkpod:
mrmsudawgs@closet:~/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0$ gtkpod
The program 'gtkpod' can be found in the following packages:
* gtkpod-aac
* gtkpod
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled
bash: gtkpod: command not found
mrmsudawgs@closet:~/Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0$

[claydoh]

Re: Problem with &quot;make&quot; while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

A menu entry may or may not show up, though it usually will . Does entering the command 'gtkpod' in the terminal work? You may also try '/usr/local/bin/gtkpod'

Also, from the above, you did install libgpod. That is a separate thing from the app 'gtkpod', which you need to compile and install that as well. They are listed as separate source packages on their website

libgpod is the backend bits to control ipod stuff, and gtkpod is a graphical front-end that uses it.

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with &quot;make&quot; while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

:P Ohhhhh Duhhhhhhh!!!! Dang. That's embarrassing. You are correct. I've only installed libgpod and not gtkpod itself. I was so happy that I actually installed something without Adept that I forgot what the end goal was.

That just goes along with the rest of my day today.

LOL!

[mechanism]

Re: Problem with &quot;make&quot; while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

A menu entry may or may not show up, though it usually will . Does entering the command 'gtkpod' in the terminal work? You may also try '/usr/local/bin/gtkpod'

Also, from the above, you did install libgpod. That is a separate thing from the app 'gtkpod', which you need to compile and install that as well. They are listed as separate source packages on their website

libgpod is the backend bits to control ipod stuff, and gtkpod is a graphical front-end that uses it.

Getting past my previous issues ---I've downloaded the gtkpod files and made through
./configure
make
make install

and located the execuitable file. However, nothing happens when clicked. Also, typing "gtkpod" in shell yielded this:

mrmsudawgs@closet:~$ cd /usr/local/bin
mrmsudawgs@closet:/usr/local/bin$ ls
gtkpod
mrmsudawgs@closet:/usr/local/bin$ gtkpod
gtkpod: error while loading shared libraries: libgpod.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mrmsudawgs@closet:/usr/local/bin$ sudo gtkpod
Password:
gtkpod: error while loading shared libraries: libgpod.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mrmsudawgs@closet:/usr/local/bin$

I used Konqueror to look for libgpod.so.3 and none could be found. I also checked the repositories and nothing there either. So, I'm an inch away from the finish line but it still feels like a mile. Any ideas?

M

[opie]

Re: Problem with &quot;make&quot; while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

I don't know if its the only problem but the missing library problem

"gtkpod: error while loading shared libraries: libgpod.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

is related to this:

"/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3.0.0':
Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1"

which is a result of your running
make install
without sudo

make install is what actually moves the compiled libraries and application into their proper locations and sets up symbolic links for the libraries so you HAVE TO run this as

sudo make install

so you have root and can write files into the locations that are owned by root.

[lingenfr]

Re: Problem with &quot;make&quot; while installing libgpod (gtkpod lib)

It would be super if someone could update libgpod and gtkpod and compile gtkpod w/ mp4v2. That is why I'm not using it. I tried the compile and was getting a lot of silliness.