Re: dumb question about scons.....
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On 02/16/07 10:01, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
> But I am not used compiling stuff that would
>> >> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark.
>> >> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it
>> >> from scratch. The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical
>> >> engineering modelling progam. It has been released under the GPL I
>> >> think. The authors made some rpms for it and say that you could use
>> >> something called alien to convert the rpms into deb files.
>> >
>> >> But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from
>> >> scratch. If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included
>>
>> Ah, now I understand.
>>
>> But there is already a scons package in amd64. Is it not built with
>> the options you want?
>
> I think it is probably OK, but I may need to change some of the
> options. I tried compiling ascend with scons and got the following
> error message:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/scon
>
> /usr/bin/ld: lsod/lsode.os: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local
> symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> lsod/lsode.os: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [libascend.so] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> localhost:/home/mikef/ascend#
> localhost:/home/mikef/ascend#
>
> As I mentioned above this code is usually compiled for 32 bit i386 use.
> If I can fix this then I will have a version that runs in 64 bit mode.
> Next stop a proper ab initio 64 bit deb package not an alien rpm to deb
> fix, Then a proper i386 deb package as well, a sponsor if that makes
> sense and I can find one and a new package for Debian if it wants it.
>
> The compiler suggests that I need to recompile with the -fPIC option. I
> am having to run scons as root because of a permission problem I get as
> a user:
>
> mikef@localhost:~/ascend$ scons
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>
> scons: *** Error writing options to file: options.cache
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'options.cache'
That looks like the problem... Change the perms on the dir that it
tries to write options.cache to?
> File "SConstruct", line 624, in ?
> mikef@localhost:~/ascend$
>
> I will study some scons documentation and see if I can figure out how to
> turn on the -fPIC option.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
Recompile scons, or ASCEND?
Are we agreeing that the problem seems to be in *configuring* scons?
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