Error installing GnuTLS

[Samuel Colvin]

Just tried to install Quandl and found GnuTLS won't install, I'm on Ubuntu 15.04, 

version info:

Julia Version 0.3.8

Commit 79599ad (2015-04-30 23:40 UTC)

Platform Info:

  System: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)

  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

  WORD_SIZE: 64

  BLAS: libopenblas (NO_LAPACKE DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)

  LAPACK: liblapack.so.3

  LIBM: libopenlibm

  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3

Error:

INFO: Cloning cache of GnuTLS from git://github.com/JuliaWeb/GnuTLS.jl.git

INFO: Installing GnuTLS v0.0.4

INFO: Building Nettle

INFO: Building GnuTLS

INFO: Attempting to Create directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/downloads

INFO: Downloading file http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.7.tar.gz

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100 1521k  100 1521k    0     0   814k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  814k

INFO: Done downloading file http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.7.tar.gz

INFO: Attempting to Create directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/src

INFO: Attempting to Create directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps

INFO: Directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps already created

INFO: Attempting to Create directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/src/nettle-2.7

INFO: Attempting to Create directory /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/builds/nettle

INFO: Changing Directory to /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/builds/nettle

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

checking for -R flag... using -Wl,-rpath,

Searching for libraries

checking /home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/usr/lib... not found

checking /usr/local/lib... added

checking /sw/local/lib... not found

checking /sw/lib... not found

checking /usr/gnu/lib... not found

checking /opt/gnu/lib... not found

checking /sw/gnu/lib... not found

checking /usr/freeware/lib... not found

checking /usr/pkg/lib... not found

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... no

configure: error: in `/home/samuel/.julia/v0.3/GnuTLS/deps/builds/nettle':

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

There then follows a long error from the line which failed (the exit code is 77), but it looks to me like the all the "not found" and the "checking whether the C compiler works... no" are the real error here. I have gcc, build-essential and all the versions of llvm from the aptitude installed. Nettle installed fine before this.

I assume I'm doing/not doing/missing something very dumb?

Is the problem that I need to somehow install llvm-3.3?

[Glen H]

I believe the issue is you are using too old of a gcc compiler.  I think you need at least gcc 4.4.

[Kevin Squire]

No help for the error, but Ubuntu 15.04 has gcc 4.9, so that's not the issue.

[Samuel Colvin]

yup:

> gcc --version

gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13) 4.9.2

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Samuel Colvin
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[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Note that the check says "whether the C compiler works": I think it's actually trying to build a small C program. You should be able to get more details in config.log in the same directory. There may even be a command line to run to reproduce the problem.


Regards

[Samuel Colvin]

config.log: https://gist.github.com/samuelcolvin/91ca748699ce6dc81660

I looked though it myself before posting this issue but couldn't see anything obvious.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 04 juin 2015 à 13:59 -0700, Samuel Colvin a écrit :
> config.log: https://gist.github.com/samuelcolvin/91ca748699ce6dc81660
>
>
> I looked though it myself before posting this issue but couldn't see
> anything obvious.

Ah, I think the explanation lies here:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp

You need to install libgmp-dev.

But I would have expected configure to check for this explicitly
somewhere else. Maybe worth reporting upstream.


Regards

[Samuel Colvin]

Thanks for you help.

Ok that works (actually it failed again, but this time it was due to missing m4 which is easy enough to notice and install).

I'm happy to create an issue, but I'm a little unclear on whether this is julia's fault or GnuTLS's fault? Where should I be submitting the issue?

Thanks again.

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Samuel Colvin
S...@muelColvin.com,
07801160713

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 04 juin 2015 à 22:19 +0100, Samuel Colvin a écrit :
> Thanks for you help.
>
>
> Ok that works (actually it failed again, but this time it was due to
> missing m4 which is easy enough to notice and install).

Cool!

> I'm happy to create an issue, but I'm a little unclear on whether this
> is julia's fault or GnuTLS's fault? Where should I be submitting the
> issue?

This is certainly not Julia's fault, as it's merely calling the
configure script. It doesn't look like it's GNU TLS's fault either, but
rather that of Nettle. If you feel like it, it might be interesting to
get in touch with its maintainer:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/


Regards

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 04 juin 2015 à 23:28 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :
> Le jeudi 04 juin 2015 à 22:19 +0100, Samuel Colvin a écrit :
> > Thanks for you help.
> >
> >
> > Ok that works (actually it failed again, but this time it was due to
> > missing m4 which is easy enough to notice and install).
> Cool!
>
> > I'm happy to create an issue, but I'm a little unclear on whether this
> > is julia's fault or GnuTLS's fault? Where should I be submitting the
> > issue?
> This is certainly not Julia's fault, as it's merely calling the
> configure script. It doesn't look like it's GNU TLS's fault either, but
> rather that of Nettle. If you feel like it, it might be interesting to
> get in touch with its maintainer:
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/

Looks like I spoke too soon. It may well be that this -lgmp flag comes
from GnuTLS.jl:
https://github.com/JuliaWeb/GnuTLS.jl/blob/8780b9acfc49ebf9b231b373d31c2c4046f93f13/deps/build.jl#L48


Another issue is that it should have been able to use the Ubuntu package
instead of building from source. It seems the package is (now?) called
libgnutls-deb0-28, which will need to be added to the build.jl file.

So I think you can start by filing an issue against GnuTLS.jl.


Regards