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Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 12 Jun 2011, 23:20
by hampe
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~/bin/polymake/polymake-2.10/build.x86_64/external/nauty$ sh -c "CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 ../../../external/nauty/configure; rm Makefile" loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 17:27
by keilen
Benjamins advise

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make -C build.i686/external/nauty
helped to create nauty.h and whatever was supposed to be in build.i686/external/nauty.

However, I now get a new error message, which seems to be caused by javaview:

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/usr/bin/perl perl/polymake --iscript configure_java Please confirm the path to javaview start script or enter an alternative location: [program path] > /usr/share/javaview/bin/javaview polymake: ERROR: Undefined subroutine &Java::Configure::find_jni_headers called at /home/keilen/Computeralgebra/Polymake/polymake/scripts/configure_java line 25. make: *** [compile-java-native] Fehler 1
I should note, that also in the running installation of polymake javaview does not work any more and I get basically the same error message about the undefined subroutine.

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 18:03
by blorenz

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make -C build.i686/external/nauty
helped to create nauty.h and whatever was supposed to be in build.i686/external/nauty.
I don't know why they haven't been created automatically but at least this helped for you.
However, I now get a new error message, which seems to be caused by javaview:

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polymake: ERROR: Undefined subroutine &Java::Configure::find_jni_headers called at /home/keilen/Computeralgebra/Polymake/polymake/scripts/configure_java line 25.
This is a known bug which has been fixed in 2.10 or can be fixed by adding one line in scripts/configure_java:
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reconfigure("javaview.rules");
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reconfigure("java.rules"); reconfigure("javaview.rules");
PS: Alternatively, removing the configuration directory ~/.polymake would also resolve this issue but only until you run configure (and make) again.

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 18:20
by blorenz
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~/bin/polymake/polymake-2.10/build.x86_64/external/nauty$ sh -c "CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 ../../../external/nauty/configure; rm Makefile" loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
First, the makefile in this command was deliberately with a lower-case "m" as this configure script of nauty creates its own makefile which needs to be deleted after a successful run of this script. The Makefile with upper-case "M" is the polymake Makefile for nauty and should have been kept but can be recreated by running the main configure again.

Second, it seems that the autoconf scripts bundled with our nauty package are somewhat outdated and fail to generate a proper name for your system. What kind of CPU do you have and what is the output of /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 -v ?

Theoretically you should be able to specify your own host type by executing:

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sh -c "CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 ../../../external/nauty/configure x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu && rm makefile"
and/or adding this host type to the similar looking command in ext_lib/nauty/Makefile.inc:

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override _dummy := $(shell $(_hide) CC=$(CC) CFLAGS="$(Cflags)" $(src)/configure x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --quiet 2>/dev/null; rm makefile $(_restore))
But i fear that this might not work as those script dont even accept x86_64 as architecture.

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 19:07
by hampe
1) cat /proc/cpuinfo yields two processors, both with the following properties:

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz

2) ~/bin/polymake/polymake-2.10/build.x86_64/external/nauty$ /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.6/configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=-4.4.6 --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.6 (GCC)

3) I tried the commands and got:

~/bin/polymake/polymake-2.10/build.x86_64/external/nauty$ sh -c "CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 ../../../external/nauty/configure x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu && rm makefile"
configure: warning: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu: invalid host type
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized

checking for gcc... /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6
checking whether the C compiler (/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.4.6 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

P.S.: Will be on vacation the next four days, so further experiments will have to wait until monday ;)

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 14 Jun 2011, 19:33
by blorenz
Seems to be a problem with the gcc you have built.
There should be a config.log in the directory where you ran those commands, can you attach it to a post?

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 21 Jun 2011, 22:43
by hampe
Got it working!

Thanks to your hint, I looked into the config.log and found out that gcc was simply not finding libgcc, so I had to add an LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib64/". Afterwards, when running "sh -c ...", it still warned me that the architecture x86... was not known, but finished without an error. I added the line you posted to the Makefile.inc and ran make and make install in the main polymake dir, which finished without errors. I now run polymake 2.10 :) Thanks for helping me out!

The strange perl problem I mentioned earlier has, however, not vanished. I ran the same commands immediately after the installation of polymake and it actually worked. After restarting polymake because I had made some changes in an unrelated piece of code, it recompiled shared modules for common. Then, when I called the commands, I again got

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/tmp/poly6812Taaaa0001.cc: In static member function âstatic sv* polymake::tropical::IndirectFunctionWrapper<Fptr>::call(Fptr*, sv**, char*) [with Fptr = pm::type2type<pm::perl::Object(pm::perl::Object, pm::Vector<pm::Rational>)>]â: /tmp/poly6812Taaaa0001.cc:7: error: âfuncâ cannot be used as a function make: *** [/tmp/poly6812Taaaa0001.o] Error 1
I know this is probably hard to diagnose from afar, but just in case someone has seen something similar or has an idea, I'm also posting the poly....cc-file mentioned in the error:

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#include <unistd.h> namespace { void delete_temp_file() __attribute__((destructor)); void delete_temp_file() { unlink("/tmp/poly6812N1_aaaa0001.so"); } } namespace polymake { namespace tropical { FunctionWrapper4perl( pm::type2type<perl::Object (perl::Object, pm::Vector<pm::Rational>)> ) { perl::Value arg0(stack[0]), arg1(stack[1]); IndirectWrapperReturn( arg0, arg1.get< perl::TryCanned< const Vector< Rational > > >() ); } FunctionWrapperInstance4perl( pm::type2type<perl::Object (perl::Object, pm::Vector<pm::Rational>)> ); } }

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 22 Jun 2011, 13:15
by gawrilow
A healthy gcc does not require such weird settings. I strongly suspect your installation is seriously corrupted, messed up, or just ill-born. I would suggest to install a clean gcc out of the box (4.3, 4.4, or 4.6) completely aside the system compiler, and then reconfigure and rebuild polymake from scratch using it:

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./configure CC=gcc-sane CXX=g++-sane make make install

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 27 Jun 2011, 11:56
by hampe
I tried installing gcc-4.4.3 (which is the same I run on my office PC, where everything works) in the same manner Michael Joswig suggested. I get exactly the same problem (i.e. I have to specify LDFLAGS because it doesn't find the libgcc). I suppose I'm simply not experienced enough in compiling compilers to see what I do wrong ;)

I can compile polymake without any problems with the native gcc-4.4 (which is actually 4.4.5), but then again I stil get the strange compilation error during runtime I mentioned before. So it does indeed seem to be a problem with the system, that probably occured during the update from lucid to natty. Since this is most probably impossible to diagnose from afar and since I don't want to reinstall my OS, I'll simply stick to working only on my office computer and not changing anything there (especially not updating...) :) Still, thanks for your help!

Re: Problems with the installation under Ubuntu 11.04

Posted: 12 Jul 2011, 15:39
by hampe
I have to revise my position from the last post: The problem is NOT restricted to my own laptop. Thomas Markwig tried to run my extension under polymake 2.9.10 on his own Kubuntu Natty laptop and had the exact same problem. So it seems this is not a personal issue with some installation mess-up, but a general problem with the new (K)ubuntu.

Also, I seem to have localised the problem, more precisely: I know how to cause it: First of all it only appears for c++ functions that have been linked via the Function4perl macro (UserFunction4perl is fine). To reproduce it, I have to do the following:
- Assuming I have a fresh polymake installation, before importing the extension, I remove the wrap-*.cc file that corresponds to the cc-file containing my function (Also works if there is no wrap-*.cc file to begin with).
- Then, when importing the extension and calling that function, I will get the compilation error mentioned above.

In fact, the contents of the temporary file are more or less those of the wrap-*.cc file. So it seems that compiling this wrapper-file with the standard make command in the extension directory or by importing the extension is fine. However, when compiling it during runtime, this fails. Since the new gcc seems to cause so many troubles: Is it possible that polymake uses a different compiler when doing the runtime compilation of the wrappers?