[Mldonkey-users] Re: Errors while make'ing mldonkey

[Robin Hill]

On Sun Dec 22, 2002 at 03:00:15PM +0100, Andreas Neiser <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> first of all, sorry for my english, i'm german ;)
> I have problem with compiling mldonkey from the sources.
> i extracted the tar.gz file,
> then i did a cvs checkout and a update,

Why both?  Either use the tar.gz or use the cvs.

> then i executed ./configure -enable-batch (which took quite a lot of time,
> but that doesnt matter ;)
> after that i typed make depend and then make.
> but make exits with the following error message (also when i execute make
> again):
> /usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot open output file mldonkey: Is a
> directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> Error during linking
> make: *** [mldonkey] Error 2
> 
> hm, i think it is a problem with ld, it says that mldonkey is a directory.
> ok, that's right, but how could i solve this problem?
> 
Sound to me like you downloaded the cvs from within the base of the
extracted tar.gz.  There shouldn't be a mldonkey directory wiuthin the
source (the cvs checkout will create one to put it's files into though).

> any help would be appreciated!
> 

My advice would be to delete the entire thing and start again.  Just do
the cvs checkout (ignore the .tar.gz file and there's no need to do a
cvs update immediately after the checkout) then configure and make.  The
first configure will take a very long time as it needs to compile the
ocaml and lablgtk stuff.  In future you will just need to do a cvs
update, configure and make (the configure here will be very quick as
you've already got the ocaml and lablgtk compiled).

HTH,
        Robin

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