Software Installation Help - Newbie

UNIX Solaris
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Let me start off by saying that I am by no means a unix person. I am tasked to install log4cxx on a brand new machine but it looks like we need the apr, apr-utils, libtool, make, autoconf, automake, and gcc packages just to install log4cxx. Our machine came with no c compiler so I couldn't build gcc, so I downloaded the binary from sunfreeware.com. My machine specs are:

uname -a
SunOS texas 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500

The binaries that I have been downloading say they are for:
Freeware List for SPARC and Solaris 10

Are these binaries the correct ones?

I have used the pkgadd application to install all of the above applications except log4cxx, which I need to build.

The first step to build is to run ./autogen.sh

When I run this I get:
./autogen.sh: aclocal: not found
./autogen.sh: autoheader: not found
/usr/local/bin/autoconf: /usr/local/bin/autom4te: not found
./autogen.sh: automake: not found

I added /usr/local/bin to my PATH and I've checked to make sure all of these files exist and they do.

Could the binaries be wrong or is there something Im doing wrong?

Thanks for any help in advance.

2

You should have downloaded from Sparc / Solaris 9 Packages since that is the version you are running.

3

Thanks for your reply

I pkgrm'ed all the packages that I installed, downloaded the solaris 9 versions, and pkgadd'ed those. And I'm still getting the same message.

./autogen.sh: aclocal: not found
./autogen.sh: autoheader: not found
/usr/local/bin/autoconf: /usr/local/bin/autom4te: not found
./autogen.sh: automake: not found

Any Ideas???

4

Not sure what you are reading - or maybe you are doing something besides what it seems you state you are attempting:

Steps to build log4c should be (most of the time this is the process to build not just for log4c - of course, if I'm wrong, someone will be sure to say something!):

As of version 0.2.0 log4cpp can be build using autoconf on platforms that support it. Simply do:

./configure
make
make check
make install

This will install log4cpp under /usr/local. To install in another localation specify --prefix=<location> when running configure.

5

Im actually trying to build log4cxx by apache not the log4cpp on sourceforge. Not sure which is better but i need to get log4cxx built. :confused:

Thanks

6

I believe that the ./autogen.sh script creates the configure file. In the INSTALL document this is the first step.

Ok I got it to run, looks like it needed more applications installed, perl and a newer version of m4.

Thanks for your help!

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Suggest you double check your PATH - try using the which command to see if it finds the correct executable and also change your shell to sh (in case you are using csh)

$ which gcc
Make sure the output is where you expect it to be (/usr/local/bin/gcc or where ever you think it suppose to be - then go to the directory and make sure it's there)

Do that for all the files it states it needs.

Double check your packages - pkginfo -p will show any packages that were only partially installed - make sure all these new packages are okay.

Check that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH has the correct paths also (env|grep LIB)