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Files created by 'make' aren't getting executable permissions by default

I'm trying to build a project, and when I use the command make, I get the following errors: /bin/sh: line 4: .deps/ipset_bitmap_ipmac.Tpo: Permission denied make[2]: *** [ipset_bitmap_ipmac.lo] Error ...
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net-snmp-5.7.2 compilation fail

I am currently trying to compile net-snmp-5.7.2 on rhel 6 64bit system. ./configure step is fine, but when I do the make step I got the following error : gcc -shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall ...
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Make Completion Progress Script

Any time I'm executing a build process that takes several hours, I inevitably stare at my terminal and wonder, "how much longer?" Sometimes, I manually pick up on some pathname echoed to the terminal ...
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Compiling multiple source file with arm-ulinucxeabi-gcc including -o -c option

I am compiling multiple c source which depend on multiple header files. Makefile SHELL=cpp2 ...
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CMake Error: The current directory is different than

I'm trying to compile the source code for Shrewsoft VPN. The instructions say to compile the source on step 4. However... I get this error: user@ubuntu:~/Ubuntu One/Programs/ShrewSoft VPN$ sudo ...
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Unable to install libevent without admin priviledges

I just downloaded libevent-2.0.21-stable, which I am hoping to compile so that I can use tmux. However, when I run: ./configure --prefix=/path/to/libevent-2.0.21-stable/ make make install ...
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Trying to install DIP (Dialup Networking) package for SLIP protocol [duplicate]

We are trying to interface with a wireless modem that connects to a computer via a com-port DB-9 connection. It uses SLIP in the sense that the modem hosts a SLIP server and requires the interfacing ...
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What steps are involved in porting an Xorg OpenGL app to DirectFB?

I'm looking for a birds-eye view on porting a small app1 that uses some OpenGL functions from it's home on Xorg to run in a more stand-alone fashion using DirectFB. I am unfamiliar with both C and ...
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GCC fails to build at linking libquadmath

I'm trying to build GCC (GCC 4.8, at revision 195144), but I get the following error: libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libquadmath.a libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libquadmath.la" ...
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Building Qt: 'make clean' causes everything to get recompiled?

(This applies to Qt versions >= 4.7.3.) I made an attempt to build Qt with custom parameters on my Debian box and it actually took AGES to compile (IIRC more than 6 hours on a single-core CPU). That's ...
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Build Gimp from custom-path libraries

I'm installing Gimp (2.6.10) on Debian. The system has all the required libraries (dependencies) installed in the default directories, so giving to Gimp ./configure && make && make ...
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libbfd-2.22.so missing while compiling Binutils/Glibc/Zlib

When I try to compile Binutils, Glibc and Zlib using chroot on my LFS system, I get this error: ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.22.so: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
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What could be causing make to hang when compiling on multiple cores?

Yesterday I was trying to compile the ROOT package from source. Since I was compiling it on a 6 core monster machine, I decided to go ahead and build using multiple cores using make -j 6. The ...
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Why can't ld find this library?

I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, and therefore can't figure out why the following command does not work: $ gfortran -o dsimpletest -O dsimpletest.o ../lib/libdmumps.a \ ...
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Compiling software with the same options as a previous install

I want to compile and install a software on a new VM. The software was installed successfully on a different VM by a different admin, but I want to duplicate the exact command with the options that he ...
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Compiling a kernel module with some options

I have a bug in a driver (iwlwifi/iwlagn), which I have reported, and the developers are asking me to "build the driver with debug options enabled." More specifically: Debugging output is enabled ...
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How to install LuaJIT on FreeBSD without using Gmake?

Has anyone been able to install LuaJIT v2 on FreeBSD AMD64(x64) without using Gmake (just freebsd-make)? If so how? When I attempt to use freebsd-make, LuaJIT doesn't build.
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Make errors when compiling hulahop

When I cloned hulahop I had a few possibilities to install it. I have chosen the path with autogen.sh I used commands: $ sh autogen.sh # -> OK $ ./configure # -> OK But make fails: $ ...
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Why does 'make' complain about a missing rule when I try to build a program from source?

I am a Linux novice, and I am attempting to compile scientific software called DL_POLY_Classic. I downloaded the zip file dl_class_1.6.tar.gz and unzipped it using the command tar xvzf ...
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How to include local header files in linux kernel module

Say I have a module mymod with source files as follows: src/mod/mymod.c src/inc/mymod.h I try to include mymod.h as follows #include <mymod.h> My makefile contains EXTRA_CFLAGS= ...
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Why can't gcc find libevent when building tmux from source?

I want to install tmux on a machine where I don't have root access. I already compiled libevent and installed it in $HOME/.bin-libevent and now I want to compile tmux, but configure always ends with ...
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Ocaml compilation error in AIX 6.1

I meet the following error when I try to compile Ocaml on my server running AIX 6.1 : "../Makefile.shared", line 39: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double colon operator. ...
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unresolved dependencies of bz* files for rpm make from source

I am trying to do a build of rpm from source. I got through the ./configure and ran through a good chunk of make. Unfortunately I keeping getting stopped up on undefined references to bzerror, ...
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configure not adding line-continuation characters to makefile

This is, perhaps, a bit of a bizarre one but I don't even know where to start looking so if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'll be very grateful. I've just done a fresh install of my ...