install fnmatch problem

[GeneR...@sympatico.ca]

I am new to programming and recently switched from Windows to Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa x86 64.

I am trying to install Kona from Github and am stumped at the following error message ...

In file included from src/0.c:1:0:
src/incs.h:17:21: fatal error: fnmatch.h: No such file or directory
#include <fnmatch.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [src/0.o] Error 1

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Can anyone tell me how to get past this error message and into the kona program ? Thanks

[Steve Graham]

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and I find fnmatch.h in the /usr/include directory.  I would assume it is automatically loaded with most any version of Linux.

Are you running Cinnamon or some other DE?

Steve

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[GeneR...@sympatico.ca]

Thanks for your reply.No not cinnamon ...I am running Linux Mint v17.3 Rosa x86 64. It is not that old. They do have Mint v18 out now.

I did not find a file called FNMATCH in my usr/include directory.

I am not that familiar with how linux works. I looked and found packages for

fnmatch for perl and python & installed them but that didn't help.

Do you know of some place where I can get the simple fnmatch that you have ?

[Steve Graham]

You might try 

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/include/fnmatch.h

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[GeneR...@sympatico.ca]

Steve, tThanks for your help :) which led me to a solution which I am sharing here in case any other Linux Mint users run into this problem.

Apparently kona was tested with Linux Mint v16 and v18. I have v17 which apparently is missing some essential files.I found this explanation ...

"by default only the 64 bit libraries are included and all the header files goes info /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu (although the header files are same for 32 bit and 64 bit). These are part of debian package lib6-dev. If you want the 32 bit libraries then install the package libc6-dev-i386. This package creates /usr/include/sys along with other ones. However the headers are soft linked to /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys."

After installing the package libc6-dev-i386 kona worked.

[Steve Graham]

Glad you found your answer.

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[Steve Graham]

What is your motivation for using Kona?

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 4:09 AM <GeneR...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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[GeneR...@sympatico.ca]

On Friday, December 28, 2018 at 10:09:40 AM UTC-5, Steve Graham wrote:

What is your motivation for using Kona

I am now part of a team that has its roots in APL & J programming which believes that K and q and similar vector languages are the future.

We are having some classes on how to use Q and K and right now are working through the “Q for Mortals” book.

Since we can access q in k, we are wondering if we can access q in kona. If so, how ? Thanks

[Steve Graham]

Thanks.

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[GeneR...@sympatico.ca]

So is it possible to access q in kona ?

[douglas mennella]

First off, I believe that q gives you access to k and not the other way around since q is built on top of k.  I don't believe anyone has attempted to build a version of q on top of any opensource variant of k.