building nedit-ng for CentOS 7 #342

Necoboss · 2023-03-10T17:23:29Z

Necoboss
Mar 10, 2023

Hi Guys,

Has anyone managed to build nedit-ng on CentOS 7?

I've been trying for a few days now without success so far :'(

Any tips or help would be pretty much appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Necoboss

eteran · 2023-03-10T19:58:04Z

eteran
Mar 10, 2023
Maintainer

I haven't tried that specific OS yet, but it's easy enough to spin up a container and see what the story is.

Can you share some of the errors you've seen?

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Necoboss · 2023-03-13T09:51:36Z

Necoboss
Mar 13, 2023
Author

Hi eteran!

First, I tried without root access, and here what I've got:

cd /phyd/users/cdoming
git clone https://github.com/eteran/nedit-ng.git
cd nedit-ng/
mkdir DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL
cd DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL
<install locally boost/QT5/cmake>
some dependencies where installed but cmake could not find it so I have to try it locally
as an example boost was already installed however I didn't manage to make cmake find it
$ yum list installed | grep boost
boost.x86_64 1.53.0-28.el7 @base

cd ..
mkdir build
cd build

qt5 local path setting

export Qt5_DIR=/gpfs/phyd/users/cdoming/nedit-ng/DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL/QT5/5.12.12/gcc_64

using specific version of cmake

../DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL/cmake-3.25.2-linux-x86_64/bin/cmake .. -DBOOST_ROOT=/phyd/users/cdoming/nedit-ng/DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL/boost_1_55_0

-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.8.5
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/lib64/ccache/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found Boost: /phyd/users/cdoming/nedit-ng/DEPENDENCIES-LOCAL-INSTALL/boost_1_55_0 (found suitable version "1.55.0", minimum required is "1.35")
-- Extracting nedit-ng version info with git...
-- Found Git: /tools_hpc/tools/utils/git/2.33.0/bin/git (found version "2.33.0")
-- NEDIT_VERSION_GIT = "2020.1-251-g79989ea6"
-- NEDIT_COMMIT_GIT = "79989ea68a229568a133167c71d6847ad10ba532"
-- NEDIT_BRANCH_GIT = "master"
-- Found X11: /usr/include
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib64/libX11.so;/usr/lib64/libXext.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib64/libX11.so;/usr/lib64/libXext.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /phyd/users/cdoming/nedit-ng/build

make
[ 1%] Building CXX object Regex/CMakeFiles/Regex.dir/Execute.cpp.o
c++: error: unrecognized command line option \u2018-Wsuggest-final-methods\u2019
c++: error: unrecognized command line option \u2018-Wsuggest-final-types\u2019
c++: error: unrecognized command line option \u2018-Wsuggest-override\u2019
make[2]: *** [Regex/CMakeFiles/Regex.dir/Execute.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Regex/CMakeFiles/Regex.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any clue of what could be wrong here? gcc version? boost install?

Thanks and regards,
NecoBoss

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anjohnson · 2023-03-13T14:31:37Z

anjohnson
Mar 13, 2023

I've been building nedit-ng on RHEL-7 for many years. You will need updated versions of binutils, gcc and g++, and probably Cmake, Bison and Boost too to build it with — check the minimum versions that the nedit-ng documentation specifies. On the official Red Hat release I use their devtoolset-7 with packages like these to provide GCC:

devtoolset-7-binutils-2.28-11.el7.x86_64
devtoolset-7-gcc-7.3.1-5.16.el7.x86_64
devtoolset-7-gcc-c++-7.3.1-5.16.el7.x86_64

I assume Centos 7 provide equivalents to them; newer versions would also probably work.

This is the Makefile I add to the top-level of the nedit-ng working directory to configure and build it to run from my personal home directory:

# My build configuration

PREFIX = /home/anjohnson

TOOLSET = /opt/rh/devtoolset-7
CMAKE = /opt/cmake/bin/cmake
BUILD = Build

CMAKE_TARGETS = all install

CMAKE_OPTIONS += -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(PREFIX)

# UI preference configuration:
CMAKE_OPTIONS += -DPER_TAB_CLOSE=ON

default: install

# NB: $(BUILD) is a real directory
$(BUILD):
	mkdir $@

$(BUILD)/Makefile: $(BUILD)
	cd $(BUILD) && \
	source $(TOOLSET)/enable && \
	$(CMAKE) $(CMAKE_OPTIONS) ..

$(CMAKE_TARGETS): %: $(BUILD)/Makefile
	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD) -j $@

clean:
	test -f $(BUILD)/Makefile && \
	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD) $@

distclean:
	rm -rf $(BUILD)

.PHONY: $(CMAKE_TARGETS) clean distclean
.NOTPARALLEL:

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eteran · 2023-03-13T19:35:12Z

eteran
Mar 13, 2023
Maintainer

Thanks @anjohnson !

Saving me a lot of time with this helpful build tips :-)

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Necoboss · 2023-03-14T09:32:37Z

Necoboss
Mar 14, 2023
Author

Thanks @anjohnson !

I verified the following:

$ yum list installed |grep devtoolset-7
devtoolset-7-binutils.x86_64            2.28-11.el7                    @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-gcc.x86_64                 7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-gcc-c++.x86_64             7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-gcc-gdb-plugin.x86_64      7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-gcc-gfortran.x86_64        7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-gcc-plugin-devel.x86_64    7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-libquadmath-devel.x86_64   7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-libstdc++-devel.x86_64     7.3.1-5.16.el7                 @centos-sclo-rh
devtoolset-7-runtime.x86_64             7.1-4.el7                      @centos-sclo-rh

and after doing :
$ scl enable devtoolset-7 bash

I was able to compile nedit-ng ! (so it was clearly a gcc / c++ version issue)

However I don't understand why I had to install locally boost and give its path while boost with a compatible version is available

$ yum list installed | grep boost
boost.x86_64                            1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-atomic.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-chrono.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-context.x86_64                    1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-date-time.x86_64                  1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-filesystem.x86_64                 1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-graph.x86_64                      1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-iostreams.x86_64                  1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-locale.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-math.x86_64                       1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-program-options.x86_64            1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-python.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-random.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-regex.x86_64                      1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-serialization.x86_64              1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-signals.x86_64                    1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-system.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-test.x86_64                       1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-thread.x86_64                     1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-timer.x86_64                      1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-wave.x86_64                       1.53.0-28.el7                  @base

Any idea why ?

Regards,
NecoBoss

PS: I had to do this:
cmake .. -DBOOST_ROOT=/gpfs/tools_hpc/tools/utils/nedit/2020.1/build/boost_1_81_0

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eteran Mar 14, 2023
Maintainer

My guess is you had to install the boost devel packages because they provide the headers but the ones you had installed are library only.

anjohnson Mar 14, 2023

That makes sense, @Necoboss it looks like you didn't have the boost-devel RPM installed, and that's essential. My RHEL-7 box has boost-devel-1.53.0-28.el7.x86_64 which includes the headers for some if not all of the RPMs that you list as having installed.

Necoboss Mar 15, 2023
Author

Thank you guys for the explanations.

As both of you mentioned, I understood I had to install boost and boost-devel packages
$ yum install -y boost
and
$ yum install -y boost-devel

$ yum list installed  | grep -P "^boost\.|^boost-devel"
boost.x86_64                            1.53.0-28.el7                  @base    
boost-devel.x86_64                      1.53.0-28.el7                  @base

And it worked for boost!
This might help others!

Thanks and regards,
NecoBoss

PS: Now no need to -DBOOST_ROOT option while invoking cmake

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qt5 local path setting

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