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Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

I'm not having any success compiling modules with ASSS 1.4.4 (on Linux). The server itself compiles and installs (asss, backtrace, etc.) just fine, but none of the modules get compiled, it's like they're just getting ignored, including the turf example.

make deps, then make.. compile goes well.. but no turf.o or turf.so In fact, no .so files at all. I'm making do with the ones from the premade binaries at the moment, but I'd love to be able to compile some other modules.

I've tried using the makefile fragment method described via http://wiki.minegoboom.com/index.php/Installing_New_Modules but then when that didn't work I just concentrated on trying to get the included examples (turf mainly) to compile.

I don't know what other info to give unfortunately, because there aren't any errors to speak of, it's like it's just skipping over any of the modules at compile time. So I'm hoping someone else ran into this problem and knows a quick fix. Is there a known problem with the dl_template (I'm just guessing here)?

Am I missing something really obvious here? I'm not a C/C++ coder and don't have much experience compiling, but I thought the modules were supposed to get compiled along with the rest? Making a custom makefile is bit beyond my scope for make -f, but any suggestions to get these compiled would be appreciated.

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure the exact nature problem you're having. Which modules aren't building for you that come prebuilt?

Have you tried "make turf"?

Take a look in system.mk and make sure you've configured things in there properly.
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Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

Bak · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject:

delete turf.so and do make turf
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CypherJF · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

Check your /asss144/build folder for any *.so, *.o files.
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Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

Not sure if this is helpful in sorting it out or not.. Using make's debug option, here's the relevant portion for turf. This is after a make clean, with the build dir empty, then make deps and make -d (for this debug info):

(Edit: Oops, cut and pasted from wrong attempt, here's the right one)

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Considering target file `turf/turf.mk'.
Looking for an implicit rule for `turf/turf.mk'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.o'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.c'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.cc'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.C'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.cpp'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.p'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.f'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.F'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.r'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.s'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.S'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.mod'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.sh'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk,v'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/RCS/turf.mk,v'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/RCS/turf.mk'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/s.turf.mk'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/SCCS/s.turf.mk'.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Trying implicit prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.o'.
Looking for a rule with intermediate file `turf/turf.mk.o'.
Avoiding implicit rule recursion.
Trying pattern rule with stem `turf.mk'.
Found an implicit rule for `turf/turf.mk'.
Finished prerequisites of target file `turf/turf.mk'.
Prerequisite `turf/turf.mk.o' of target `turf/turf.mk' does not exist.
No need to remake target `turf/turf.mk'.

Is it just me, or does it seem to be looking for turf.mk.c, etc. rather than the .c files specified in the .mk, or is that just typical debug info?

turf doesn't show up past that in the debug list.

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it does all that with mine too, so I guess it's not a big deal.

To be perfectly honest, I haven't used a fresh directory in a very long time. I've got a monotone working directory instead.

I doubt gcc would give you any trouble (if it were, it would manifest itself differently). Sounds more like a make issue if anything. I'm using GNU Make 3.81.

Try make clean, then log the output of "make" to a file and attach it here.

Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

Okay, attached two files. One is the output from make and the other is make -d (debug). Both were after make clean, make deps.

On a side note, just played a couple hours of BountyRabbit with friends and it's the first time since '97 that most of them have played Subspace. Awesome stuff, we're all very happy with any and all the peeps that have contributed to ASSS

Now if I could just extend it a bit more, I'm stuck with just precompiled + Python modules. =)

I'll try Monotone tomorrow.

Smong · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

Did you unzip the asss package correctly? Just wondering if you are missing some directories like src/scoring.
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Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

Those logs reveal nothing, I'm afraid. Something is definitely wrong though, but I couldn't tell you what.

Try getting a copy from monotone, or as a hack, you could tell all the modules to get built inside asss instead of their own .so file.

Rog · Newbie Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 18 Offline

Same results with the source retrieved via Monotone, so I'm really thinking it's something to do with my older GCC (v3.2.2) and/or Make (v3.79.1), or some other configuration on my hosted Linux machine.

I think what I'll do is build a CentOS production machine here, so I can compile locally and then move the module binaries over to my hosted server until I get around to finally reinstalling that whole box.

Thanks everyone for trying to help me solve this. =)