Autogen can't find SphinxBase (sphinx_config.h), while its really there

[Toine-db]

I have seen lots and lots of issues about missing 'sphinx_config.h', most of them because of wrong folder names like 'sphinxbase-master'. But my folder structure is exactly how its supposed to be, and it really includes 'sphinx_config.h' as well, so what could it be?

I downloaded the two repos and put them in the folders:

• sphinxbase
• pocketsphinx

I run "./autogen.sh" in sphinxbase and it works fine
I run "./autogen.sh" in pocketsphinx and I get the error that it can't find sphinxbase

checking SWIG version... 4.0.2
checking for SWIG library... /usr/local/Cellar/swig/4.0.2/share/swig/4.0.2
checking for GStreamer... checking for sphinxbase in /Users/toinedeboer/pocketsphinx/../sphinxbase... no
checking for sphinxbase in /Users/toinedeboer/pocketsphinx/../sphinxbase... no
./configure: line 13321: SPHINXBASE_CFLAGS: command not found
./configure: line 13322: SPHINXBASE_LIBS: command not found
checking sphinx_config.h usability... no
checking sphinx_config.h presence... no
checking for sphinx_config.h... no
configure: error: in /Users/toinedeboer/pocketsphinx': configure: error: SphinxBase was not found on your system. See config.log' for more details

Some other stuff I tried besides above:

• runing "./autogen.sh" in pocketsphinx with the following doesn't work either
  • with sphinxbase include folder on different locations (the folder that has sphinx_config.h)
  • with sphinxbase in pocketsphinx folder
  • building sphinxbase (./build_iphone.sh arm64) and using the /bin folders
  • etc etc.

I added the terminal output and the logs to see what happens in detail.
autogen-terminal-output.txt
config.log (pocketsphinx)
config.log (sphinxbase)

[nshmyrev]

Hello

You can try to change this line:

https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx/blob/ab6d6471800966990e12fdb6ed27ae36323cf2c4/configure.ac#L103

to something like (.la to .a)

   if test -f "$sb/src/libsphinxbase/libsphinxbase.a"; then

depending on what file is actually there.

[Toine-db]

Great, thnks

[Toine-db]

I fixed it, it seems building Spinxbase creates files and puts them in architecture folders and not in "spinxbase/src/libsphinxbase/file.a" but in something like "spinxbase/bin/arm64/lib/file.a".

Copy/pasting these file to spinxbase/src/libsphinxbase/ made it all work again.