Re: Fwd: configtool for linux building problems.

[Sergei Gavrikov <sergei.gavrikov@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, David Fernandez wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've been trying to look for this email chain in your mailing list
> archives, as I had to rbuild configtool, but funnily enough, the
> search returned 0 results all the time, I've tried several ways, my
> name+surname, the subject line, etc.
> 
> I guess that will cause several repeated questions to go into the
> list, so you might want to look into this.
> 
> Just searching with the subject "configtool for linux building
> problems" in ecos-discuss archives, like
> (http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?wm=wrd&form=extended&m=all&s=D&ul=%2Fml%2Fecos-discuss%2F%25&q=configtool%20for%20linux%20building%20problems)
> gives nothing.
> 
> Luckyly, this time I could salvage it from my local email archives.

Hi David

I guess your ask about search results only (not build issue :-)

As I could understand, mnoGoSearch (search engine on sourceware.org)
does index only the posts with 'us-ascii' and 'iso-8859-1' character
sets. So, you can find the very few own posts on sourceware.org due the
reason

  http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=david_fernandez

Check [Raw Text] output for any links from the list and you will see in
the headers

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

So, mnoGoSearch was happy to index them and find such posts.

In opposite, if you look on your Subject (thanks to Google):

  http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2012-06/msg00019.html

You will find in that header

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

Well, as Google has more power to index everything, it was easy to find
the post your talk about (no need to have local copy):

  https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=configtool+for+linux+building+problems

It was interesting that Google found your message only on the mirrors as
nabble.com and gmain.org and the e-mail copies in those archives are utf-8
encoded (re-encoded from originals).

In old good days I would say use ASCII for the lists and today I have no
definitive advice.

Sergei

> Regards.
> David Fernandez
> 
> 
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: configtool for linux building problems.
> ------------------------
> 
> From: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> This is probably a deja-vu, as I think I run into this the last time I
> try it some time ago...
> 
> I have wxGTK-devel 2.8.12 from my Fedora 15 distribution...
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> $ sudo make -f ${ECOSTOOLSPREFIX}/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/makefile.gnu
> install WXDIR=/usr INSTALLDIR=$ECOSTOOLSPREFIX OSTYPE=linux-gnu
> c++ -O2 -c -ITCLDIR_use_system/include -I/usr/local/include
> -I/usr/local/src/tools/configtool/common/common
> -I/usr/local/src/tools/Utils/common
> -I/usr/local/src/tools/ecostest/common -DecUSE_EXPERIMENTAL_CODE=1
> `/usr/bin/wx-config --cppflags` -o
> /home/wifi/builds/ecos-wxwin/aboutdlg.o
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp
> In file included from /usr/local/src/tools/Utils/common/eCosStd.h:122:0,
>                  from /usr/local/src/tools/Utils/common/Collections.h:55,
>                  from /usr/local/src/tools/ecostest/common/eCosTest.h:48,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/appsettings.h:49,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/configtool.h:57,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/ecpch.h:69,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:47:
> /usr/local/src/tools/Utils/common/wcharunix.h:289:0: warning: "_T"
> redefined [enabled by default]
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/wxchar.h:271:0: note: this is the location of
> the previous definition
> In file included from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/appsettings.h:47:0,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/configtool.h:57,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/ecpch.h:69,
>                  from
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:47:
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/filename.h: In
> constructor ‘ecFileName::ecFileName(const unsigned char*)’:
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/filename.h:87:54:
> error: call of overloaded ‘wxString(const unsigned char*&)’ is
> ambiguous
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/filename.h:87:54:
> note: candidates are:
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:722:3: note: wxString::wxString(const
> wxWCharBuffer&) <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:722:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const unsigned char*’ to ‘const wxWCharBuffer&’
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:692:3: note:
> wxString::wxString(wxChar, size_t) <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:692:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const unsigned char*’ to ‘wxChar {aka wchar_t}’
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:690:3: note: wxString::wxString(const
> wxString&) <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:690:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const unsigned char*’ to ‘const wxString&’
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:682:3: note: wxString::wxString(int)
> <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:682:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const unsigned char*’ to ‘int’
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp: In
> member function ‘bool ecAboutDialog::AddControls(wxWindow*)’:
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:94:53:
> error: cannot convert ‘wxChar* {aka wchar_t*}’ to ‘char*’ in
> initialization
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:107:68:
> error: no matching function for call to ‘wxString::Replace(const
> wchar_t [10], const char [6])’
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:107:68:
> note: candidate is:
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1173:10: note: size_t
> wxString::Replace(const wxChar*, const wxChar*, bool)
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1173:10: note:   no known conversion
> for argument 2 from ‘const char [6]’ to ‘const wxChar* {aka const
> wchar_t*}’
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:108:45:
> error: no matching function for call to ‘wxString::Replace(const
> wchar_t [7], const char [12])’
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:108:45:
> note: candidate is:
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1173:10: note: size_t
> wxString::Replace(const wxChar*, const wxChar*, bool)
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:1173:10: note:   no known conversion
> for argument 2 from ‘const char [12]’ to ‘const wxChar* {aka const
> wchar_t*}’
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:132:101:
> error: conversion from ‘const char [4]’ to ‘const wxString’ is
> ambiguous
> /usr/local/src/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:132:101:
> note: candidates are:
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:692:3: note:
> wxString::wxString(wxChar, size_t) <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:692:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const char [4]’ to ‘wxChar {aka wchar_t}’
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:682:3: note: wxString::wxString(int)
> <near match>
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/string.h:682:3: note:   no known conversion for
> argument 1 from ‘const char [4]’ to ‘int’
> /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/gtk/button.h:21:5: error:   initializing
> argument 3 of ‘wxButton::wxButton(wxWindow*, wxWindowID, const
> wxString&, const wxPoint&, const wxSize&, long int, const
> wxValidator&, const wxString&)’
> make: *** [/home/wifi/builds/ecos-wxwin/aboutdlg.o] Error 1
> 
> Sure you know what is wrong, as I couldn't get a reasonable search set
> from the list archives.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ----------
> From: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:59 PM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> 
> 
> Using the linked wxGTK-2.8.8 in the ecoscentric web site, the problem is:
> 
> $ su -c 'make -f
> /home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/makefile.gnu
> install WXDIR=/usr/local ECOSSRCDIR=/home/davidfc/ecos/host
> INSTALLDIR=/usr/local'
> Password:
> c++ -O2 -c -ITCLDIR_use_system/include -I/usr/local/include
> -I/home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/common/common
> -I/home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/Utils/common
> -I/home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/ecostest/common
> -DecUSE_EXPERIMENTAL_CODE=1 `/usr/local/bin/wx-config --cppflags` -o
> /home/davidfc/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ecos/configtool/aboutdlg.o
> /home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp
> In file included from
> /home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/ecpch.h:69:0,
>                  from
> /home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/aboutdlg.cpp:47:
> /home/davidfc/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/configtool.h:55:33:
> fatal error: wx/gizmos/splittree.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [/home/davidfc/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ecos/configtool/aboutdlg.o]
> Error 1
> 
> The folder "gizmos" does not exist inside /usr/local/include/wx-2.8/wx/,
> that leaves me quite confused :( When this problem gets solved,
> something should definitely be put in the ecos.sourceware.org web about
> it...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ----------
> From: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:57 PM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> 
> 
> As people is quite busy these days, I eventually find the answer myself:
> 
> The best ecos help page for configtool and host tools in general is
> http://www.ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml, the README.txt in
> ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin gives a make recipe that is
> less flexible then the one indicated in the web page.
> 
> 1.- The link to wxGTK-2.8.8 sources in the above, or any other
> wxGTK-2.8.x sources are ok, but require a few tricks. After configuring,
> building, and installing, as indicated in the eCosCentric web page for
> configtool, while in the wxGTK build folder (not the sources one) do:
>     cd contrib/src/gizmos
>     make
>     sudo make install
> This should get the gizmos library and headers installed, which do not
> seem to install by default.
> 
> 2.- Edit the makefile.gnu in ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone, and
> add to the line EXTRALDFLAGS, at the end, after leaving a space, -lX11
> 
> 3.- Build configtool as indicated in
> http://www.ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml
>     sudo make -f
> <path-to>/ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin/makefile.gnu \
>                         install WXDIR=<wxgtk-install-prefix>
> ECOSSRCDIR=<path-to>/ecos/host \
>                         INSTALLDIR=<configtool-install-prefix>
> The makefile.gnu has the full possible options, but if your tcl is
> properly installed, only the ones shown above will be necessary.
> 
> N.B. wxGTK-2.9 has either integrated gizmos into normal wxGTK source
> folders, or moved part of it to "wxCode" (perhaps an additional package
> to configure --with-wxcode, but not sure).
> 
> Hopefully I'll be able to find this the next time... Although it would
> be good to update the ecos.sourceware.org pages with this info, perhaps
> the eCosCentric ones too.
> 
> By the way, if John Dallaway, or any other maintainer for configtool
> could confirm its maintenance status, and if what I've put above is the
> best way to solve the configtool build problems, that would be great.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ----------
> From: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:54 AM
> To: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
> 
> 
> Hi David
> 
> On 21/06/12 23:57, David Fernandez wrote:
> 
> > 1.- The link to wxGTK-2.8.8 sources in the above, or any other
> > wxGTK-2.8.x sources are ok, but require a few tricks. After configuring,
> > building, and installing, as indicated in the eCosCentric web page for
> > configtool, while in the wxGTK build folder (not the sources one) do:
> >     cd contrib/src/gizmos
> >     make
> >     sudo make install
> > This should get the gizmos library and headers installed, which do not
> > seem to install by default.
> 
> That is what I do to install gizmos.
> 
> > 2.- Edit the makefile.gnu in ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone, and
> > add to the line EXTRALDFLAGS, at the end, after leaving a space, -lX11
> 
> I have not found -lX11 to be necessary. The invocation of wx-config
> within makefile.gnu should return all the flags necessary to link with
> the X window system. Which Linux distro and version are you using? Can
> you forward the link-time error you observe without this change
> (including all the command-line arguments) please?
> 
> John Dallaway
> eCos maintainer
> http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john
> 
> ----------
> From: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs@ecoscentric.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:18 AM
> To: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> On 2012-06-21 23:57, David Fernandez wrote:
> > As people is quite busy these days, I eventually find the answer myself:
> >
> > The best ecos help page for configtool and host tools in general is
> > http://www.ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml, the README.txt in
> > ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone/wxwin gives a make recipe that is
> > less flexible then the one indicated in the web page.
> >
> > 1.- The link to wxGTK-2.8.8 sources in the above, or any other
> > wxGTK-2.8.x sources are ok, but require a few tricks. After configuring,
> 
> Just a word of warning.  If you use versions of wxGTK above 2.8.8,
> including the 2.9.x series (although I have not tried the latest 2.9.3
> yet), you will find that there are a few things which are broken within
> the configtool. As far as I am aware, there has been no work within
> anoncvs to move the configtool to newer wxGTK libraries and
> unfortunately, as you mentioned, we have been too busy to contribute our
> updates to the configtool for this and 64 bit support (we have local
> unrelated customizations and MinGW native windows support).
> 
> We therefore recommend that you stick with wxGTK 2.8.8 until the
> configtool is updated in anoncvs.
> 
> -- Alex
> 
> ----------
> From: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:26 PM
> To: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
> Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
> 
> 
> 
> >> 2.- Edit the makefile.gnu in ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone, and
> >> add to the line EXTRALDFLAGS, at the end, after leaving a space, -lX11
> > I have not found -lX11 to be necessary. The invocation of wx-config
> > within makefile.gnu should return all the flags necessary to link with
> > the X window system. Which Linux distro and version are you using? Can
> > you forward the link-time error you observe without this change
> > (including all the command-line arguments) please?
> >
> >
> Hi John,
> 
> This is the "simplified" output:
> 
> c++ -o configtool <lots-of-files.o>  -LTCLDIR_use_system/lib -L/usr/local/lib
> -l<other-libs>... -ltcl `/usr/local/bin/wx-config --libs std,gizmos`
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2_core-2.8.a(corelib_utilsx11.o):
> undefined reference to symbol 'XGetWindowAttributes'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XGetWindowAttributes' is defined in DSO
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [/<my-build -folder>] Error 1
> 
> I compiled this in Fedora14+wxGTK-2.8.12 and Fedora15+wxGTK-2.8.8, and I
> get the same problem in both of them (both wxGTK were compiled from
> sources and installed in /usr/local, I know that /usr/local/bin is in
> the PATH, but my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty, as I rely in the config
> scripts for wx and tcl).
> 
> If you want the full link command (two or three screens), let me know,
> and I'll recompile.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ----------
> From: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM
> To: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> 
> 
> Hi David
> 
> On 22/06/12 19:26, David Fernandez wrote:
> 
> >>> 2.- Edit the makefile.gnu in ecos/host/tools/configtool/standalone, and
> >>> add to the line EXTRALDFLAGS, at the end, after leaving a space, -lX11
> >>>
> >> I have not found -lX11 to be necessary. The invocation of wx-config
> >> within makefile.gnu should return all the flags necessary to link with
> >> the X window system. Which Linux distro and version are you using? Can
> >> you forward the link-time error you observe without this change
> >> (including all the command-line arguments) please?
> >
> > This is the "simplified" output:
> >
> > c++ -o configtool <lots-of-files.o>  -LTCLDIR_use_system/lib -L/usr/local/lib
> > -l<other-libs>... -ltcl `/usr/local/bin/wx-config --libs std,gizmos`
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2_core-2.8.a(corelib_utilsx11.o):
> > undefined reference to symbol 'XGetWindowAttributes'
> > /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XGetWindowAttributes' is defined in DSO
> > /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
> > /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [/<my-build -folder>] Error 1
> >
> > I compiled this in Fedora14+wxGTK-2.8.12 and Fedora15+wxGTK-2.8.8, and I
> > get the same problem in both of them (both wxGTK were compiled from
> > sources and installed in /usr/local, I know that /usr/local/bin is in
> > the PATH, but my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty, as I rely in the config
> > scripts for wx and tcl).
> 
> This is almost certainly due to recent Fedora builds of GNU ld using
> different DSO-linking semanics. Ref:
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking
> 
> Specifying -lX11 explictly for Linux builds seems reasonable and should
> be safe for other users.
> 
> I've attached a patch at:
> 
>   http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001613
> 
> Thank you for reporting this.
> 
> ----------
> From: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM
> To: David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>
> Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
>