Re: [igraph] failure compiling C library with --enable-shell

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi Stijn,

the shell interface is not supported, sorry. It should have been
removed already. You can write a little program in C that you can call
from the shell, as a workaround.

Gabor

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Stijn van Dongen <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> I've downloaded the C library code (igraph-0.5.3.tar.gz), configured it with
>
>   $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-shell
>
> and ran make. This fails with the following error:
>
> .....
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/nas10b/vol1/homes/stijn/test/igraph-0.5.3/tests'
> Making all in interfaces
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/net/nas10b/vol1/homes/stijn/test/igraph-0.5.3/interfaces'
> Making all in shell
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/net/nas10b/vol1/homes/stijn/test/igraph-0.5.3/interfaces/shell'
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `interface.c.in', needed by 
> `interface.c'.  Stop.
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/nas10b/vol1/homes/stijn/test/igraph-0.5.3/interfaces/shell'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/net/nas10b/vol1/homes/stijn/test/igraph-0.5.3/interfaces'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> I am on CentOS. I can supply more info if needed.
>
> Looking at interfaces/shell/Makefile.am, it contains a rule to derive
> interface.c from interface.c.in (which is not shipped in the tar bundle).
> However, interface.c is already present. I tried a few things such as deleting
> the rule just mentioned, but to no avail. Then I noticed that
> interfaces/shell/Makefile.am references $(top_srcdir)/tools/stimulus.py --
> which is not present in the bundle.  Do I need some other bundle as well, or 
> is
> --enable-shell perhaps not a prefered way of accessing igraph?
>
> best,
> Stijn
>
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