help with make command

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#1

Hi all,

I must say first of all I am completely new to Linux and Open Suse, I installed an 11.1 distro so as I could work at programming ATmel and PIC microchips.

Iam trying to build/compile/install? some software packages namely gputils and Cross-AVR.

So far I have managed to follow the instructions to download the package and extract it to a folder ok.

Next in the terminal I change directory and enter the command ./configure as per the instructions.

A lot of text goes by and finishes with

gputils-0.13.7 is now configured for

Build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Source directory: .
Installation prefix: /usr/local
C compiler: gcc -g -O2

The next instruction says type make

When I do that it says

ralph@linux-poqo:~/gputils-0.13.7> make
bash: make: command not found

typing make install doesn’t work either.

What am I doing wrong or what have I left out?

Thanks for any help.
Ralph

#2

Hi
You need to install the program called make either via YaST or from
the command line;


sudo zypper in make

You may wish to search here for applications;
http://software.opensuse.org/search?

However, there isn’t a build for 11.1 or the latest version. You could
download a src rpm, then build with;


rpmbuild --rebuild gputils-0.13.6-8.4.src.rpm
sudo rpm -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/gputils-0.13.6-8.4.i586.rpm

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#3

Thanks Malcolm,

well I got a little bit further that time. I done the zypper make bit first and that worked.

I had another go at building gputils.

Firstly I typed ./configure - ok
next I typed make and it done it’s bit ok.
Then I typed make install and it returned this

test -z “/usr/local/bin” || mkdir -p – “/usr/local/bin”
/usr/bin/install -c ‘gpasm’ ‘/usr/local/bin/gpasm’
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file /usr/local/bin/gpasm': Permissiondenied make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/ralph/gputils-0.13.7/gpasm’
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ralph/gputils-0.13.7/gpasm’
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
ralph@linux-poqo:~/gputils-0.13.7>

I will try your second approach shortly and see if that works.

Ralph

#4

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:06:01 +0000, 2i0rpm wrote:

> Permissiondenied

You ran “make install” as your regular user, most likely, and that login
doesn’t have rights to write to the path /usr/local/bin/ - try:

sudo make install

After make has completed. That will run the command as root.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

#5

Thanks Jim

That worked this time. Everythings installed into the usr/local/bin folder.

I’ll remember that for next time.

Thanks
Ralph

#6

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:36:01 +0000, 2i0rpm wrote:

> Thanks Jim
>
> That worked this time. Everythings installed into the usr/local/bin
> folder.
>
> I’ll remember that for next time.

No problem, glad to help out - when you’re just learning about building
software, it can seem very daunting. :slight_smile:

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Moderator