Questions tagged [makefile]
Questions relating to makefiles, (The file that contains the instructions for make)
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Error while running make install: cannot change permissions of [directory]: No such file or directory
trying to install a package for Coq proof assistant, I have already had to jump through a couple hoops with it not playing nicely with Windows and am trying to install it on WSL. I get the following ...
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equivalent .sh or make file for a .BAT file
I bought a book yesterday on OS development however, the book is written for windows systems and this was not mentioned in the description. I need to convert a .BAT file into an equivalent shell ...
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booting from qemu with self-made bare minimum OS
I wrote a minimal OS to boot from in nasm.
org 0x7C00 ;because the OS is loaded at address 0x7C00
bits 16 ;because we start in 16 bit mode
main:
hlt
.halt
jmp .halt
times 510-($-$$) db 0
dw ...
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Makefile for kernel module - error
I made a simple kernel module and a defult Makefile I was given in lecture.
obj-m += module.o
all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(...
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linking not done using make command
I am working on Ubuntu. I am running make command but it is not working, an error is generated. I am sharing the error below.
gcc: warning: pr1: linker input file unused because linking not done
gcc ...
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Custom Linux Kernel Module Can't be Inserted in WSL 2
OS: Windows 11, WSL2(Ubuntu 22.04)
inside WSL2, command uname -r returns: 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Firstly, I dowloaded the correct version of Linux kernel from Github: WSL2-Linux-Kernel. ...
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Makefile:372: install-zenmap Error 1
help please
followed instructions get this error
[Makefile:372: install-zenmap] Error 1
is there a fix
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ERROR make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop
I am getting error for "make" command" as below:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Here are the two command lines after downloading a Git repository:
./...
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Why the variable value is not changing in the function?
In the following function main_script, the variable DEFAULT_BACKUP_DIR is not working as intended because the value /home/user/BACKUP is not assigned to it which I do not know why, and when I try to ...
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How to Add a New Path to pkg-config?
I've just start using GNU make because of a software package I'm trying to install. The tutorial is really good, but for some reason I'm not able to do it properly. I downloaded the files, extracted ...
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could not build custom configured nginx
I am using UBUNTU server 22.04, openssl version 3.0.2 and I was trying to build custom configured NGINX as a proxy for mail server however, when I run 'make' it gives me error. For that i referred to ...
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Error when using 'make install' command in qbittorrent installation
I am attempting to install qbittorrent software from tar.gz (https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php) on ubuntu 22.04. I can unpack the zip files, run configure, and make executes just fine, but when ...
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debuild cannot remove '..' permission denied, debian/rules:9: recipe for target 'clean' failed
I am trying to run debuild command to work with debian with my project However, when I run debuild command I get such error:
hoseopjeong@hoseopjeong-VirtualBox:~/Documents/HoseopJeong_debian_lab9/...
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Arguments for make
I know you can pass arguments like parameters, for example, make foo=bar. I am wondering if I can do this with only one argument, without the variable. For example, this is what I would like to do:
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Linking Zlib with source compilation
I have compiled Libz using these steps:
wget -c --no-check-certificate https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.12.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/home/zlib1/
make
make install
Similarly I have compiled OpenSSL and ...
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Kernel Module exit message get printed next time when inserting the module
I have written simple kernel module to print Hello kernel msg.
my_module.c
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
/* Meta Information */
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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how do I modify makefile which is already compiled?
Let's say I have a makefile which looks like this:
all: a_functions.o b_functions.o c_functions.o d_functions.o main.o
gcc -o all a_functions.o b_functions.o c_functions.o d_functions.o main.o
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can't remove a game installed by make install command
I wanted to install a launcher which is actually for enter and play in a server in Minecraft(I don't know if giving the name of the game is forbidden) and to do this I went to the website of the ...
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How to get Six (an old KDE game program) running in Kubuntu 20.04
Six was a gold-medal winner several times in a computer games olympiad. The source code is on GitHub https://github.com/melisgl/six/tree/master/six. It has been pinned for a couple of decades, but I ...
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"/usr/include/stdio.h:27:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory" when compiling HTK
I'm trying to compile the HTK library, but run into issues:
$ make all
(cd HTKLib && make HTKLib.a) \
|| case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory '/...
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Unreal 4 compiled successfully but UE4Editor file doesn't exist
I have Ubuntu 20.04 on a desktop with an old i7 CPU and 16 GiB of RAM.
Here are the commands I ran to compile Unreal 4.27:
./Setup.sh
./GenerateProjectFiles.sh
make -j 4
make -j 4 ShaderCompileWorker
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Cannot source venv using makefile
The Makefile inside project root
# Makefile
.PHONY: help
help:
@echo "Commands:"
@echo "venv : creates development environment."
# Environment
.ONESHELL:
venv:
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GNU make executes weird shell
The shell function in GNU make behaves weird on Ubuntu. Consider this simple Makefile:
TEST1 := $(shell command -v sh)
TEST2 := $(shell /bin/sh -c 'command -v sh')
all:
$(info TEST1 = $(TEST1))...
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How to solve "make" issue while cross-compiling on the ubuntu
I am trying to cross-compile this (ultralytics/yolov5) project on my ubuntu machine. Since I am compiling it for my another machine "raspberry Pi" so I already installed the toolchain which ...
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insmod: ERROR: could not insert module simpleModule.ko: Operation not permitted
I'm a beginner learning about linux kernel. I tried to insert a simple module but encountered the following error.
sudo insmod simpleModule.ko
[sudo] password:
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module ...
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Where to put library to allow programs to see it? [duplicate]
I wanted to compile mosaic on my ubuntu machine, but while compiling, I did not have right libpng version, so the compilation aborted with error:
error: invalid use of incomplete typedef ‘png_struct’ {...
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Is it possible to avoid executing make and make install with sudo?
Whenever it is possible, I try to use applications, libraries and plugins delivered through official Ubuntu APT.
However, sometimes I try to compile something, like resynthesizer plugin for GIMP. In ...
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Makefile with if statement error
Attempting to create a makefile with a run rule which has an if in it.
When I run the command make run it returns this error:
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then&...
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Makefile: python: command not found
I have a Makefile that contains these two lines
run: sim
@python run.py $(INPUT)
When I tried to run make run, I got the error message saying python is not found. I soon realized that was because ...
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makedepf90: program for automatic creation of Makefile-style dependency lists for Fortran source code
I assumed it is only a couple of seconds installing this program, but it confuses me honestly.
this program is for the automatic creation of Makefile-style dependency lists for Fortran source code.
I ...
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Error when using 'make install' command
I am attempting to install the WRF weather software (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/compilation_tutorial.php#STEP7) that requires the installation of certain libraries. I can unpack the ...
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Install wxWidgets-3.1.4, Install Code::Blocks
After downloading and installing (./configure, make install) the latest wxWidgets-3.1.4 version from official page. I checked out latest Code::sBlocks with svn from official repository.
In the folder ...
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collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status while compiling
first i want to say that i looked for every solution for this problem in the site ,but no luck !
i have a project which i'm trying to compile , when i compile it on Ubuntu 14 everything is ok , but ...
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Software-installation error (makefile) on Ubuntu 20.04
I was trying to install geopsy software, but when I ran sudo make install the following error occured:
cd mseed/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake -o Makefile /opt/geopsy-3.3.0/...
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Newbie: How to use QMAKE to compile and install FaustLive on Ubuntu Studio 20.04? Can't create Makefile with qmake w/ linux-g++
FaustLive is an open source prototyping environment for Faust (open source, compiled audio programming language). Here is FaustLive's GitHub: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlive
After successfully ...
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"make" command does not work in directories containing "space"
I often use make to compile programs. But, sometimes, only with some packages, when the directory contains a space, it says:
No such file or directory
Example:
If I run make in the directory /home/...
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shell unnanme -r command not found
shantanu@LAPTOP-3NM82R8U:~/c$ make
make: unname-r: Command not found
make -C/lib/modules//build M=/home/shantanu/cmodules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules//build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:3:...
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Unable to locate package makefile
Hello everyone I am new in using Ubuntu operating system and facing a problem.
I have installed GCC using
sudo apt-get install gcc
but when I run the following command
sudo apt-get install ...
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Make error with Grib2 and Netcdf
I am trying to install a software package designed for weather modeling. This can be found here https://github.com/usgs/volcano-ash3d-metreader. The issue comes when I am trying to execute the 'Make ...
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cannot execute binary file: Exec format error - Ubuntu 16.04 + Make + GCC
I am aware that other people had similar issues but mine seem to be unique as I am not making obvious mistakes. I have reviewed other questions and putting all required details below.
When I am ...
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Finding -lgcc_s
I'm trying to install a program that seems to use libgcc_s.so. After implementing the possible remedies suggested in the SO:LINK, I still can't figure out why the compiler fails to find it.
I get the ...
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How to stop "make" from running "clean"?
Have a Makefile like this:
all: build
build:
dot2tex -ftikz temporal_dag.dot --figonly > temporal_dag.tex
latex notes && bibtex notes && latex notes && ...
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make: *** No rule to make target 'ell/util.c' needed by 'ell/util.lo'
I need to install ofono, so I cloned this ofono repository and did autoreconf -fi and ./configure in the directory. But when I am running make or sudo make install I am encountering the following ...
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How to make 'Make' to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name
How can we modify a Makefile script to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name to be compiled by Make automatically correctly and preferably interactively
#...
objects = ...
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Problem while executing a Makefile
i'm installing the Rocket-Chip repository.
I'm following the instructions from https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip.
The instructions are:
$ git clone https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip....
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Continue custom kernel creation and not start over again from square one
Task:
Create a custom Ubuntu kernel from git sources (in my case hwe-branch).
Short summary:
I want to fix a error reported by the build scripts and then repeat only the last compilation/packaging ...
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Packaging fails upon compiling 16.04 HWE kernel
Short summary:
Packaging script looks in wrong path.
Detailed error summary:
To compile the kernel, I used the compilation instructions from here, which included the steps:
Checkout git sources ...
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configure: error: enet not found
I am trying to build 7kaa game on my Ubuntu machine.
To build Makefile.am, I ran ./configure and the tail of the result is
checking for gettext... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking for OPENAL......
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Build libfslcodec-4.0.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 for IMX6Q
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.1.15 on IMX6Q "sabresd" Board and successfully boot. I used this instruction to install rootfs also I changed distro and solved some issues by myself. Just now ...
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How to modify build rules in Makefile
I tried to compile FFmpeg from source code located HERE. All is good, but the built binaries lack ffplay. And looks like the build rule is missing from the makefile located under /fftools.
How can I ...
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