gmake error, please help :)

[vatocleti]

Hey all,
  I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a linux program that uses gcc as the compiler.

I have installed the following sets:

- gmake-3.80p1.tgz
- gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz
- libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz

and when I do a "gmake" I get the following two errors:

- " /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found"
- "/bin/gmake[365]: no closing quote

any ideas? Also, where ever I use gmake, it creates this garbage file of size 0 " ?A!@@r?@8 " and when I try to remove it, it says it doesn't exist...

Thanks,
v.

[Louis V. Lambrecht-3]

vatocleti wrote:

> Hey all,
>   I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a
> linux program that uses gcc as the compiler.
>
> I have installed the following sets:
>
> - gmake-3.80p1.tgz
> - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz
> - libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz
>
> and when I do a "gmake" I get the following two errors:
>
> - " /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found"
> - "/bin/gmake[365]: no closing quote
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> v.
>
>  

gmake != gcc != g++

[Andreas Maus-2]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:22:01AM -0700, vatocleti wrote:
> Hey all,
Hi.

>   I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a
> linux program that uses gcc as the compiler.
>
> I have installed the following sets:
>
> - gmake-3.80p1.tgz
> - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz
> - libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz
>
> and when I do a "gmake" I get the following two errors:
>
> - " /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found"
> - "/bin/gmake[365]: no closing quote

*ahem*
Where does /bin/gmake come from ?
The gmake from gmake-3.80p1.tgz lives in /usr/local/bin/gmake

(And your /bin/gmake looks like a shell script.
Did you take a look at this script?)

HTH,

Andreas.


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[vatocleti]

Louis V. Lambrecht-3 wrote:

vatocleti wrote:
> Hey all,
>   I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over a
> linux program that uses gcc as the compiler.
>
> I have installed the following sets:
>
> - gmake-3.80p1.tgz
> - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz
> - libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz
>
> and when I do a "gmake" I get the following two errors:
>
> - " /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found"
> - "/bin/gmake[365]: no closing quote
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> v.
>
>  
gmake != gcc != g++

Hi,
  This worked for me on a different system running the amd64 image, but trying the same process with the same sets on a i386 (bsd.mp) image, I get the error...not sure why? If I have a linux app, should I be able to build with the native bsd make or do I need GNU (gmake)?

thanks in advance.

[Philip Guenther-2]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:05 PM, vatocleti <un_ave@...> wrote:
...
>  This worked for me on a different system running the amd64 image, but
> trying the same process with the same sets on a i386 (bsd.mp) image, I get
> the error...not sure why?

amd64 and i386 are NOT interchangeable or compatible: you cannot run
an amd64 binary under the i386 kernel, nor vice versa.

(I'm actually surprised that the packages installed.  Did you copy the
binaries over instead of installing the packages?  Or did you override
pkg_add's warnings and use the -A or -Farch options?)


> If I have a linux app, should I be able to build
> with the native bsd make or do I need GNU (gmake)?

That depends on whether the app's makefiles were written to require
GNU make or not.  Since you didn't say what app this is, we can't
answer the question.

Of course, if this app has been added to the ports tree then building
it from there would be the simplest way forward.


Philip Guenther

[Louis V. Lambrecht-3]

vatocleti wrote:

> Louis V. Lambrecht-3 wrote:
>  
>> vatocleti wrote:
>>    
>>> Hey all,
>>>   I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/i386 and am booting bsd.mp. I have brought over
>>> a
>>> linux program that uses gcc as the compiler.
>>>
>>> I have installed the following sets:
>>>
>>> - gmake-3.80p1.tgz
>>> - gettext-0.14.6p0.tgz
>>> - libiconv-1.9.2p3.tgz
>>>
>>> and when I do a "gmake" I get the following two errors:
>>>
>>> - " /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found"
>>> - "/bin/gmake[365]: no closing quote
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> v.
>>>
>>>  
>>>      
>> gmake != gcc != g++
>>
>>
>>
>>    
> Hi,
>   This worked for me on a different system running the amd64 image, but
> trying the same process with the same sets on a i386 (bsd.mp) image, I get
> the error...not sure why? If I have a linux app, should I be able to build
> with the native bsd make or do I need GNU (gmake)?
>
> thanks in advance.
>  

We need more info:
- you list 3 applications you installed, to compile with gcc, but you
don't list gcc
- you have an error /bin/gmake[1]: ELF: not found line 1, the shabang.
on my system which gmake returns /usr/local/bin/gmake
- an error as "no closing quotes" can be what it means. It can be an
error of the author.
It can be caused by a Linuxism as using Ctrl+Enter to write a
non-breaking space.
Can be caused by a plain cp from one slice to the other without using
FTP or NFS
(which make the needed conversions as dos2unix ...)
List goes on.  Can be a bug.
- have both systems you tried on the same toolchain?

What is a Linux app?
Portable sources should not have problems to compile with the proper
toolchain.