Re: [Bug-libmatheval] about libmatheval on UNIX

[Aleksandar B. Samardzic]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:25:53AM -0500, yaya wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam;
> 
> I tried to install the libmatheval on a UNIX system recently.
> After trying all 4 editions of libmatheval, I found out that none of them 
> could be installed on my computer.
> 
> Following are the error massages for each edition;
> 
> 1.0.0
> 
> 
> In file included from error.c:26:
> common.h:39:2: #error asprintf() function missing!
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `error.lo'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.0/lib
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.0
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> 
> 
> 1.0.1
> 
> In file included from error.c:25:
> common.h:38:2: #error asprintf() function missing!
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `error.lo'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.1/lib
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.1
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> 
> 
> 1.0.2
> 
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/matheval
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `matheval'
> Current working directory 
> /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.2/tests
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.0.2
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> 
> 
> 1.1.0
> 
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/matheval
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `matheval'
> Current working directory 
> /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.1.0/tests
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory /afs/nd.edu/user24/ychu/yampb/libmatheval-1.1.0
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> 
> 
> Could you please have a look at it, and help me to figure out what the
> problem is?

You should probably keep trying with version 1.1.1 only, since in the
meantime some portability and compilation problems are solved.  Further,
I would need to know exactly which UNIX variation your site is running
and I would also need full transcript of "./configure" and "make" steps?

Regards,
Alex