[Hackrf-dev] Problem building libhackrf on Debian 6.0/amd64.

[Andrew Back]

On 3 August 2013 17:18, Tom Rondeau <tom at trondeau.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:

>> Hi Tom,

>>

>> On 2 August 2013 14:04, Tom Rondeau <tom at trondeau.com> wrote:

>>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:

>>>> Hello,

>>>>

>>>> I can't seem to build libhackrf and friends, and it appears as though

>>>> cmake isn't looking in /usr/include for the required headers. Output

>>>> below. Note that if I comment out the big endian test it just fails on

>>>> something else.

>>>>

>>>> I tried a 2nd Debian 6.0 system, and a release as well as git, and got

>>>> the same results.

>>>>

>>>> Any idea where I'm going wrong?

>>>>

>>>> Cheers,

>>>>

>>>> Andrew

>>>>

>>>> --

>>>>

>>>> andrew at snow:~/Work/Projects/HackRF/hackrf/host/build$ cmake ..

>>>> -- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.4.5

>>>> -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.4.5

>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc

>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works

>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info

>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done

>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++

>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works

>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info

>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done

>>>> -- Check if the system is big endian

>>>> -- Searching 16 bit integer

>>>> -- Looking for sys/types.h

>>>> -- Looking for sys/types.h - not found

>>>> -- Looking for stdint.h

>>>> -- Looking for stdint.h - not found

>>>> -- Looking for stddef.h

>>>> -- Looking for stddef.h - not found

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned short

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned short - failed

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned int

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned int - failed

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned long

>>>> -- Check size of unsigned long - failed

>>>> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/TestBigEndian.cmake:44 (MESSAGE):

>>>>   no suitable type found

>>>> Call Stack (most recent call first):

>>>>   libhackrf/CMakeLists.txt:40 (TEST_BIG_ENDIAN)

>>>>

>>>> --

>>>> Andrew Back

>>>> http://carrierdetect.com

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>>>

>>>

>>> Hey Andrew,

>>>

>>> I just built libhackrf on a freshly installed laptop today using

>>> PyBOMBS (gnuradio.org/pybombs):

>>>

>>> $ ./pybombs install hackrf

>>

>> I'm afraid it's failing in exactly the same place when using PyBOMBS.

>> Cmake checks fail because it doesn't seem to be picking up headers

>> that are in /usr/include.

>>

>> Best,

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> --

>> Andrew Back

>> http://carrierdetect.com

>

>

> That's too bad, but this points to it being a problem on your system.

> To not be able to find headers in the standard /usr/include path is

> very strange. That's probably never explicitly mentioned in any of the

> CMakeLists files because it's just assumed that the compiler would

> look there.


Yeah, I wondered if it was something specific to my particular system
but I also tried building on a second, freshly installed, Debian 6.0
host and got the same results. Try a more recent cmake from backports
too and didn't seem to make a difference.

Cheers,

Andrew


> --

> Tom

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Andrew Back
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