OT? Help to compile program - ac_nonexitent.h

[Robin Laing]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>> I am trying to compile a program that there is no RPM for.  I hope
>> to use this experience to learn how to make RPM's as well.
> 
> :)
> 
>> I am starting to use Atmel AVR's and I want to try this program.
>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/simulavr/
>>
>> (The latest tar file is dated 2008-03-16)
>> http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/simulavr/
>>
>> I am looking at other options as well.
>>
>> While trying to compile the program, I have installed most of the
>> devel and libs so I only get three or four error messages when
>> running ./configure
>>
>> One of them that I cannot find any answers to is where do I find
>> ac_nonexitent.h.  I have searched Google (31,800 hits) and I see
>            ^ an 's' is missing, isn't it?
>> that this is a common question for many users but I never see an
>> answer.  Two days of looking and I am no closer to an answer.  I did
>> solve the issue with vfork.h (use unistd.h) this morning. :)
>>
>> As others have asked in my searches, I have errors when compiling
>> and trying to fix all the ./configure issues first.
> 
> Does configure exit cleanly or does it throw an error when this
> happens?  I *think* that ac_nonexistent.h is something autoconf uses
> to test and isn't supposed to exist.  (But I've not found that
> documented ATM.)  I can tell you that a similar message is found in
> the config.log of some software I successfully build all the time.
> 
> What errors are you getting from make?  It might be worth posting a
> link to the output from ./configure && make (and perhaps also the
> config.log file).
> 
> 

I am doing this at home so I cannot remember the last error message.  I 
spent most of last night getting rid of all but four error messages in 
the config.log file.  I was missing many headers at first as well as 
other things like bison and yacc.  Some simple things as well.

The last two times I tried to run, it stopped with error messages but 
that was before I got rid of even more missing items in the log.

Hopefully tonight I will be able to get an answer.  I am expecting an 
error related to vfork as it is may be looking for the wrong header.  I 
will have to check the config file (another new experience). :)


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Robin Laing