boot failure (and MOL) complete

[Eddie Bindt]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Tanger wrote:

Tanger,

there are 2 ways to get MOL running ...

1 - get rpms from internet 
  1a - get mol*ppc.rpm and do rpm -Uvh mol*ppc.rpm
  1b - get mol-kmods*src.rpms and do rpm --rebuild mol-kmods*src.rpm
       cd to /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc
       do rpm -Uvh mol-kmods*ppc.rpm 

2 - get the tar.gz
  2a untar the file into some directory.
  2b follow the BUILDING instructions.

this should be enough ...


   
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable mol-0.9.66]# rpm --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm
> mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm: No such file or directory

this is obvious, the *src.rpm file is NOT in the directory where you are 
...

> [root@3-98-237-24-cable mol-0.9.66]# ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for bison... no
> checking for byacc... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for flex... flex
> checking for flex... (cached) flex
> checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
> checking lex output file root... lex.yy
> checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for c++... no
> checking for g++... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler 
> cannot create executables.

this is bad, 

>rpm -q cpp
cpp-2.95.4-4j

is installed here, perhaps not on your system ...

install it and try again ...

> [root@3-98-237-24-cable mol-0.9.66]# cd /usr/src
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable src]# ls
> Downloads             mol-0.9.65.tgz        mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm
> linux                 mol-0.9.66            mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.ppc.rpm
> linux-2.4.19          mol-0.9.66-1.ppc.rpm  mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm
> linux-2.4.19.tar.gz   mol-0.9.66-1.src.rpm  rpm
> mol-0.9.65-1.src.rpm  mol-0.9.66.tgz
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable src]# rpm --rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm
> mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm: No such file or directory

this should work in this directory ...

> [root@3-98-237-24-cable src]# rpm -rebuild mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm
> mol-kmods-0.9.66-1.src.rpm: No such file or directory
> [root@3-98-237-24-cable src]# rpm -q mol
> package mol is not installed


Is your system up-to-date ??? 

if you do

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

does it tell you it has to upgrade a lot of files ??? 
 
Eddie

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