kdevelop project was broken when going to 8.10

[Atanas Atanasov]

Binary package hint: kdevelop

I use kdevelop as a C/C++ ide. My project would not compile well after I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Here is the output. It seems to be a libtool ptoblem.

cd '/home/nasko/Documents/Summer2008/Computations/resolve/resolve/debug' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_CTYPE="C" make
make all-recursive
Making all in src
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -O0 -g3 -o resolve 4ti2.o combinatorics.o common.o gap.o linear_algebra.o lrs.o main.o resolve.o
../libtool: line 804: X--tag=CXX: command not found
../libtool: line 837: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
../libtool: line 804: X--mode=link: command not found
../libtool: line 970: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found
../libtool: line 971: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
../libtool: line 2197: X-O0: command not found
../libtool: line 2197: X-g3: command not found
../libtool: line 2366: Xresolve: command not found
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
../libtool: line 2378: Xresolve: command not found
../libtool: line 2386: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [resolve] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Exited with status: 2 ***

Please let me know if more information is necessary.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I tried a few things but I cannot see how to fix the problem. Even if I create a new "Hello World" C++ project kdevelop cannot compile it. It gives the problems as I described them above. Please help.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Does anyone replicate the problem? Has anyone looked at it?

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I tried to copy the project to another computer. When I rerun configure and all the auto-stuff the projects compiles nicely in terminal. The problem is in the libtool file or more precisely in what generates it. Here is an short passage:

 if len=`expr "X$cmds" : ".*"` &&
      test "$len" -le "$max_cmd_len" || test "$max_cmd_len" -le -1; then
   cmds=$old_archive_cmds
 else
   # the command line is too long to link in one step, link in parts
   $echo "using piecewise archive linking..."
   save_RANLIB=$RANLIB
   RANLIB=:
   objlist=
   concat_cmds=
   save_oldobjs=$oldobjs

   # Is there a better way of finding the last object in the list?
   for obj in $save_oldobjs
   do
     last_oldobj=$obj
   done
   for obj in $save_oldobjs
   do
     oldobjs="$objlist $obj"
     objlist="$objlist $obj"
     eval test_cmds=\"$old_archive_cmds\"
     if len=`expr "X$test_cmds" : ".*" 2>/dev/null` &&
        test "$len" -le "$max_cmd_len"; then
       :
     else
       # the above command should be used before it gets too long
       oldobjs=$objlist
       if test "$obj" = "$last_oldobj" ; then
         RANLIB=$save_RANLIB
       fi
       test -z "$concat_cmds" || concat_cmds=$concat_cmds~
       eval concat_cmds=\"\${concat_cmds}$old_archive_cmds\"
       objlist=
     fi
   done

You can see that before a lot of $ signs there is an extra X which shouldn't be there in the proper case. I wonder what causes it to be there.

[carlis87 (carlosdiaz87)]

I think I have looked the problem. kdevelop use the $ for delimit the fragments of code, so I think that is the problem with the libtool. I have changed the $ for other character, the '¡' in my case, and my projects compiles.

You can change the character in Preferences->Configure Kdevelop...->Fragments of Code (Sorry if is wrong, my kdevelop is in Spanish).

I hope help someone

[carlis87 (carlosdiaz87)]

sorry i was wrong, I did other change at the same time. I changed in the sources.list all 'intrepid' by 'hardy' and then: apt-get remove libtool
apt-get update
apt-get install libtool

so I installed libtool 1.5 in the place of libtool 2.4 which is contained in the Ubuntu 8.10.
For the moment all works nicely

The post of before is totally innecessary

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Thanks for the workaround. It worked great.

Is this a kdevelop problem or an incompatibility with libtool 2.2?

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Does anybody know if there is work being done on resolving the issue? What is the problem anyways?

[Niels Egberts (nielsegberts)]

I'm confirming this issue in Intrepid, I can't compile a simple hello world program without reverting back to an old libtool.

[Jessie Morris (jessieamorris)]

Same exact problem here. It makes things difficult to do sometimes....

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Has anybody been able to have a look at the problem. I see libtool has been updated several times since but the problem persists. It makes Kdevelop unusable in intrepid.

[lukhaz (korbel85)]

i have the same problem (identical backtrace) as above on kubuntu 8.10 with kdevelop 4:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 and libtool 2.2.4-0ubuntu4

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Same here on kubuntu 8.10

[clinton (clintonthegeek)]

In my case, when I try to compile something my memory skyrockets into swap and beyond, grinding my whole computer to a hault unless I stop it.

[sking (sking78)]

Same on my machine except I was just setting things up from scratch and have spent 5 hours of my life chasing a known bug... Any word on if someone is fixing it?

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

See above, carlis87 has a work around. You have to change your repositories to hardy and downgrade libtool. This worked for me.

I really hope this will soon be solved. It has been around for quite a while -- with the alpha releases of intrepid.

[sking (sking78)]

Thanks, I did do the work-around of changing line 153 in libtools from ECHO
= "echo" to echo = "echo" and that seems to work well, at least for now...

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Atanas Atanasov <email address hidden> wrote:

> See above, carlis87 has a work around. You have to change your
> repositories to hardy and downgrade libtool. This worked for me.
>
> I really hope this will soon be solved. It has been around for quite a
> while -- with the alpha releases of intrepid.
>
> --
> kdevelop project was broken when going to 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253286
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "kdevelop" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdevelop
>
> I use kdevelop as a C/C++ ide. My project would not compile well after I
> upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Here is the output. It seems to be a libtool
> ptoblem.
>
> cd '/home/nasko/Documents/Summer2008/Computations/resolve/resolve/debug' &&
> WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_CTYPE="C"
> make
> make all-recursive
> Making all in src
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -O0 -g3 -o resolve 4ti2.o
> combinatorics.o common.o gap.o linear_algebra.o lrs.o main.o resolve.o
> ../libtool: line 804: X--tag=CXX: command not found
> ../libtool: line 837: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
> ../libtool: line 804: X--mode=link: command not found
> ../libtool: line 970: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is
> deprecated.: command not found
> ../libtool: line 971: *** Future versions of Libtool will require
> --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-O0: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-g3: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2366: Xresolve: command not found
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> ../libtool: line 2378: Xresolve: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2386: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [resolve] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Exited with status: 2 ***
>
> Please let me know if more information is necessary.
>

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I tried that and it didn't work for me. First I changed ECHO="echo" to echo="echo" in /usr/bin/libtool. Then I tried adding both variables, or replacing $echo with $ECHO and none of the three approaches worked (on a sample hello world program). Am I doing something different? I am running 8.10.

[Niels Egberts (nielsegberts)]

This bug is still present in Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4...

[sking (sking78)]

I am having major problems with Kdevelop even performing simple tasks that
previously worked. I believe I will have to do a complete re-install to fix
those problems.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Niels Egberts <email address hidden>wrote:

> This bug is still present in Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4...
>
> --
> kdevelop project was broken when going to 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253286
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "kdevelop" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdevelop
>
> I use kdevelop as a C/C++ ide. My project would not compile well after I
> upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Here is the output. It seems to be a libtool
> ptoblem.
>
> cd '/home/nasko/Documents/Summer2008/Computations/resolve/resolve/debug' &&
> WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_CTYPE="C"
> make
> make all-recursive
> Making all in src
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -O0 -g3 -o resolve 4ti2.o
> combinatorics.o common.o gap.o linear_algebra.o lrs.o main.o resolve.o
> ../libtool: line 804: X--tag=CXX: command not found
> ../libtool: line 837: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
> ../libtool: line 804: X--mode=link: command not found
> ../libtool: line 970: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is
> deprecated.: command not found
> ../libtool: line 971: *** Future versions of Libtool will require
> --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-O0: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-g3: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2366: Xresolve: command not found
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> ../libtool: line 2378: Xresolve: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2386: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [resolve] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Exited with status: 2 ***
>
> Please let me know if more information is necessary.
>

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

You should try downgrading libtool from hardy -- this is the only technique which worked for me so far.

[datenteiler (datenteiler)]

I think this is a problem of KDevelop, because they use an outdated script of ltmain.sh in their template files. Intrepid Ibex is shipped with libtool version 2.2.4 - probably Jaunty is shipped with a newer one - but the ltmain.sh file in the KDevelop templates creates a libtool version 1.5.24. To fix this I can replace every libtool in my source tree with a link to /usr/bin/libtool but there is a better workaround to do this for all KDevelop projects:

First I've copied the directory "/usr/share/apps/kdevappwizard/" to "$HOME/.kde/share/apps/". Next I've extracted the archive "$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-common/incadmin.tar.gz" and I've replaced the old file "ltmain.sh" with the new one from "/usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh". Then I've packed the archive again to a new one named "incadmin.tar.gz" and replaced the old archive with the new one. Now the script ltmain.sh creates a current libtool in the source tree of my program while compilation and my source code compiles without any error.

There is no need to downgrade libtool.

Regards,
Christian

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Perfect, thanks. I worked like a charm.

[Ralph Navarro (ralph-navarrocomputing)]

I have tested Christian's technique of updating kdevappwizard's copy of ltmain.sh and can now create new C++ projects that build properly. However, a better fix might be for kdevappwizard to get its ltmain.sh (and any other libtool files) from the installed libtool instead of using a copy that can get outdated. kdevelop would then be able to use any libtool updates that were installed.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

Do you know if this would require significant changes in kdevelop? Alhernatively, this could possibly be fixed through some update trigger in the deb packaging system (when a new libtool is installed)?

[Alexey Mentat (mentatxx)]

I had same problem on newly installed Ubuntu 8.10 !

Thanx, Christian Imhorst !

I have updated /usr/share/apps/kdevappwizard/incadmin.tar.gz with updated files from /usr/share/libtool/config
and now compile done without errors !

My incadmin.tar.gz in attachment. Just download it to /usr/share/apps/kdevappwizard (remember of root privilege)

[Alexey Mentat (mentatxx)]

I mean /usr/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-common :-)
(why we cannot change our comments ?)

[mrClass (klaas-ixart)]

Updating the Kdevelop template works fine. Thanks!. For updating existing projects you should probably overwrite the project's local ltmain.sh with the one in /usr/share/libtool/config/

[Raine (rainefan)]

Same problem here with latest Jaunty 32-bit (full updated) and kdevelop 3.5.3.

christian imhorst workaround (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdevelop/+bug/253286/comments/21) worked just fine.

BTW, Kdevelop-kde4 don't have any C template :( Any hint here?

Regards,
Raine

[Raine (rainefan)]

Oops sorry! Just for the record you need to create a new Project after applying above workaround. Your actual project will not compile though :(

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

I wrote a working workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdevelop/+bug/380367

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

I hope someone will have an idea about it, so a note: I am tracing back the bug to its origin. The first (second) step was taken:
--- config.status.old 2009-05-26 11:58:58.000000000 +0200
+++ config.status 2009-05-26 11:58:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -1628,6 +1628,7 @@

 # An echo program that does not interpret backslashes.
 ECHO=$lt_ECHO
+echo=$lt_ECHO

 # Used to examine libraries when file_magic_cmd begins with "file".
 MAGIC_CMD=$MAGIC_CMD

I hope I find the corresponding part in configure (ctrl-f doesn't make it), and finally I hope to find the appropriate file shipped by you containing the bug. Any help is welcome.

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

--- configure.old 2009-05-26 12:19:12.000000000 +0200
+++ configure 2009-05-26 12:19:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -17117,6 +17117,7 @@

 # An echo program that does not interpret backslashes.
 ECHO=$lt_ECHO
+echo=$lt_ECHO

 # Used to examine libraries when file_magic_cmd begins with "file".
 MAGIC_CMD=$MAGIC_CMD

now I'll need to find where that exact snippet of configure comes from

[David (k992637)]

Hello,

Just installed ubuntu and apt-get installed kdevelop. I have the above problem. Unfortunately overwriting ltmain.sh from /usr/share/libtool/config/ does not fix for existing projects. Also, downloading the posted file incadmin.tar.gz to /usr/share/apps/kdevappwizard/ does not resolve the issue for newly created projects. Seems from the above that I'm the only person not able to resolve this with the work around? What am I doing wrong!? Any advice on how to investigate.

Thanks
David

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

David: for me the workaround worked (hint: you will have to apt-get install konsole)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdevelop/+bug/253286/comments/21
at the autoconf mailing list the folks suggest that you will have to use a newer libtool, from wherever that ltmain.sh comes, it really should be changed to a newer version. thank you.

[Simon (simschi)]

I have the same problem here and unfortunately got messed up in workarounds :-(

After I used the archive from Alexey, I got an error of different versions (2.24 vs 2.26) of libtool. Then copied accidental all the files from /usr/share/libtool/config/ into the archive and now I get the error "configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one"

How can I get the original files back? (and next time I will make backups)

thx, Simon

[Simon (simschi)]

Ok, reinstalled everything (libtool, kdevelop, ...) and followed the workaround again. This time the correct way. But it didn't work for me. I still get some errors:

config.status: executing libtool commands
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-debug
compiling pstart.cpp (g++)
mv -f .deps/pstart.Tpo .deps/pstart.Po
linking pstart (g++)
../libtool: line 835: X--tag=CXX: command not found
../libtool: line 868: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
../libtool: line 835: X--mode=link: command not found
../libtool: line 1002: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found
../libtool: line 1003: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
gcc: no input files
../libtool: line 2240: X-O0: command not found
../libtool: line 2240: X-g3: command not found
../libtool: line 2409: Xpstart: command not found
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
../libtool: line 2421: Xpstart: command not found
../libtool: line 2429: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
make: *** [pstart] Error 1
*** Exited with status: 2 ***

>libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6
Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <email address hidden>, 1996
>kdevelop --version
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.10
KDevelop: 3.5.3
>cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.28-12-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

A work around I found was to find an old project (that works) and delete out the source files and then put yours in place of those. I agree that this needs to be fixed. It is important to help the novices out, and the magic of automake and friends is a place that really needs to happen.

Rob

[Gaetano Mendola (mendola)]

how long will take a bug like this to be solved? In https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253286 someone even gives the solution to it.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I think likewise. It does not seem too difficult of a fix, yet it is quite annoying to do perform it every time one creates a new project.

[Gaetano Mendola (mendola)]

9 months and nothing yet, is this a problem of just ubuntu/kubuntu or other distribution as well, have a distribution with a broken package like this for 9 months is a kind of achievement, isn't ?

[Tyson Whitehead (twhitehead)]

I've had this outside of kdevelop, and doing

 autoreconf -f -i

to force update all the auxiliary autoconf files to the ones on the local machine fixed it.

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

I can confirm that what Tyson Whitehead mentioned fixes the problem. I guess the problem is that newbies like me don't know about that! Would it hurt if autoreconf -f -i was run at the beginning of the automake and friends?

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

Or maybe autoreconf -f -i should be run after the new project is created from the template....

[Samurai (fabio-caponetti)]

Here there is a solution:

http://doc.integrasoftware.it/tec/sis/pub/ubuntu904kdevlibtool

[N7DR (doc-evans)]

Is this fixed in karmic?

I'm quite amazed that a problem like this wasn't assigned a high priority to get fixed. That it's still present in a fully up-to-date jaunty installation a year after the initial report is very discouraging.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

In that KDevelop4 doesn't handle automake projects, it is not an issue any more. KDevelop3 has been unmaintained by its developers for a long time.

[Ralph Navarro (ralph-navarrocomputing)]

Are you saying that KDevelop4 has LESS functionality than KDevelop3?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden>wrote:

> In that KDevelop4 doesn't handle automake projects, it is not an issue
> any more. KDevelop3 has been unmaintained by its developers for a long
> time.
>
> ** Changed in: kdevelop (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> kdevelop project was broken when going to 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253286
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “kdevelop” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdevelop
>
> I use kdevelop as a C/C++ ide. My project would not compile well after I
> upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Here is the output. It seems to be a libtool
> ptoblem.
>
> cd '/home/nasko/Documents/Summer2008/Computations/resolve/resolve/debug' &&
> WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_CTYPE="C"
> make
> make all-recursive
> Making all in src
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -O0 -g3 -o resolve 4ti2.o
> combinatorics.o common.o gap.o linear_algebra.o lrs.o main.o resolve.o
> ../libtool: line 804: X--tag=CXX: command not found
> ../libtool: line 837: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
> ../libtool: line 804: X--mode=link: command not found
> ../libtool: line 970: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is
> deprecated.: command not found
> ../libtool: line 971: *** Future versions of Libtool will require
> --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> gcc: no input files
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-O0: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2197: X-g3: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2366: Xresolve: command not found
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> ../libtool: line 2378: Xresolve: command not found
> ../libtool: line 2386: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [resolve] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Exited with status: 2 ***
>
> Please let me know if more information is necessary.
>

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