Install help for Kolab newbie

[Paul Waldo]

Anyone else care to take a stab?  Here is the synopsis:

Running Kubuntu Gutsy **64-bit**, trying to compile either the stable or
beta version results in problems compiling GCC (below).  Thanks for any
help!!

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables



Paul Waldo wrote:
> Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Paul Waldo <paul at waldoware.com> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to evaluate Kolab, without much success.  Before I
>>> moved to another groupware solution, I thought I'd try to get some help
>>> from the experts :-)
>>>
>>> I'm running a Kubuntu Gusty AMD64 machine.  I first tried the kolab
>>> packages that came with the OS.  I successfully ran kolab_bootstrap, but
>>> now when I try to get initially logged in via the web admin interface
>>> (https://kolab.mydomain/admin/), I just get a blank page.  I've looked
>>> in the apache logs, but the only thing of note I see is
>>> 10.0.0.10 - - [30/Nov/2007:13:54:49 +0000] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -
>>> Not very interesting...
>>> I'm not sure where to procede from her in debugging.  Ubuntu packages
>>> would be my preferred method of install, but just to be thourough, I
>>> figured I would try compiling from source.  This is on a Kubuntu 6.06 box.
>>>     
>>
>> The Kolab server is a rather complex structure of many different
>> components. This makes all the native ports of Kolab rather
>> problematic. They do not tend to have the same kind of quality you get
>> from the OpenPKG variant. The OpenPKG based install can be far better
>> quality tested since the devs are in full control of the environment.
>>
>>   
>>> I got all of the files from
>>> http://max.kde.org:8080/mirrors/ftp.kolab.org/server/release/kolab-server-2.1.0/sources/
>>> I followed the instructions at
>>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ubuntu_6.06 to get gcc 3.4
>>> I followed the intructions at
>>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Installation_-_Source
>>>
>>> Compilation fails like this:
>>> pwd: /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3
>>> Running configure in multilib subdir 32
>>> pwd: /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>> mkdir 32
>>> configure: creating cache ./config.cache
>>> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>> checking for gawk... no
>>> checking for mawk... mawk
>>> checking whether /kolab/bin/make --no-print-directory sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc...
>>> /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/gcc/xgcc
>>> -B/kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/gcc/
>>> -B/kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
>>> -B/kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
>>> /kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem
>>> /kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include  -m32
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
>>> compiler cannot create executables
>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>> make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
>>> make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
>>> error: Bad exit status from /kolab/RPM/TMP/rpm-tmp.49252 (%build)
>>>
>>> Any help with either of these install scenarios would be greatly
>>> appreciated!  TIA.
>>>     
>>
>> You basically hit this bug:
>>
>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ubuntu_6.06
>>
>> You can either try to follow the instructions given there or you can
>> try the current beta version. I'd actually suggest the latter.
>>   
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> I tried the beta version and did exactly as described at 
> http://max.kde.org:8080/mirrors/ftp.kolab.org/server/release/kolab-server-2.1.0/sources.  
> Unfortunately I got the same problem trying to compile gcc (see 
> below).  I can send you the entire output if it will help. I even 
> tried the GCC switch at http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ubuntu_6.06.  
> BTW, this is a Kubunty Gutsy AMD64 machine.   Any help would be 
> appreciated!
>
> Paul
>
> shtool:subst:Warning: substitution resulted in no content change on 
> any file
> + case "amd64-linux2.6" in
> + /kolab/lib/openpkg/shtool subst -e 
> s/GLIBCXX_IS_NATIVE=false/GLIBCXX_IS_NATIVE=true/g -e 's/test 
> x.gcc_no_link = xyes/false/g' libstdc++-v3/configure
> + exit 0
> Executing(%build): env -i /kolab/lib/openpkg/bash --norc --noprofile 
> --posix -e /kolab/RPM/TMP/rpm-tmp.68549
> + cd /kolab/RPM/TMP
> + cd gcc-4.0.2
> + mkdir obj
> + cd obj
> + l_with_gnu_ld_as=
> + l_with_gnu_ld_as=' --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/kolab/bin/ld'
> + l_with_gnu_ld_as=' --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/kolab/bin/ld 
> --with-gnu-as --with-as=/kolab/bin/as'
> + case "amd64-linux2.6" in
> + l_enable_threads=posix
> + case "amd64-linux2.6" in
> + l_enable_languages=c
> + l_enable_languages=c,c++
> + echo am_cv_func_iconv=no
> + echo am_cv_lib_iconv=no
> ++ pwd
> + CC=cc
> + CFLAGS=-fPIC
> + CONFIG_SHELL=/kolab/lib/openpkg/bash
> + ../configure --cache-file=./config.cache 
> --srcdir=/kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/.. --prefix=/kolab 
> --exec-prefix=/kolab --includedir=/kolab/include/gcc 
> --libexecdir=/kolab/libexec/gcc 
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/kolab/include/g++ 
> --with-local-prefix=/kolab/lib/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++ 
> --enable-threads=posix --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-shared 
> --disable-nls --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/kolab/bin/ld --with-gnu-as 
> --with-as=/kolab/bin/as
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln works... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for gcc... cc
> checking whether the C compiler (cc -fPIC ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.
> error: Bad exit status from /kolab/RPM/TMP/rpm-tmp.68549 (%build)
>
>
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /kolab/RPM/TMP/rpm-tmp.68549 (%build)
>
> obmtool:WARNING: install failure. Missing 
> /kolab/RPM/PKG/gcc-4.0.2-2.5.0.amd64-ubuntu7.10-kolab.rpm
>
>
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