Compile Failure on Alpine

[strikerx22]

Having issues with a simple "make" of the application on multiple Docker distro images. Both Ubuntu and Alpine are reporting errors with line 407 of 'Makefile.inc'

099047d7298d:/event-driven-servers# ./configure tac_plus-ng

The file

    build/Makefile.inc.linux-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64

was just created. You may run "make" now. After that, you may wish to do a
"make install". Alternatively, you'll find the compiled binaries (plus some
ancillary scripts) in the

    build/linux-3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64/fakeroot/

directory structure. It's probably advisable to have a look there in any case,
as you may or may not like the particular file system layout, and this will
give you a chance to see it before installing.

Please direct support requests to the "Event-Driven Servers" Google Group at

    event-driven-servers@googlegroups.com
    https://groups.google.com/group/event-driven-servers

or file an issue at

    https://github.com/MarcJHuber/event-driven-servers

if you need help.

Support requests sent to the author's private email address may be silently
ignored.

099047d7298d:/event-driven-servers# 

099047d7298d:/event-driven-servers# make
sh: invalid number '3]10]0]1160]66]1]]]7]]86]64]'
sh: invalid number ''
sh: invalid number ''
Makefile.inc:407: *** invalid syntax in conditional.  Stop.
099047d7298d:/event-driven-servers# 

I feel like it's likely something as simple as a missing package but I can't find any comprehensive list of what's required. In my attempts to get a successful compile, here's the list of packages I have thus far:

    apk add build-base bzip2 perl perl-digest-md5 perl-ldap perl-io-socket-ssl bash git clang gcc flex bison pcre pcre2 && \
    apk add zlib curl make perl-regexp-tr

[MarcJHuber]

Hi,

I'm sorry, I don't think I can help you with this.

I just gave up installing Alpine (didn't get DNS resolution to work, at al), and while I realize that virtually everybody uses it in containers (which kind-of implies that it's great) I'm not going to spent more time on this.

I assume that you're seeing a BusyBox issue. As the errors your seeing look shell related you could try "grep shell Makefile.inc" and check whether one of those returns unexpected results. Plus, you could add additional $(warning ...) statements to determine where the error actually occurs.

If there's any trivial step-by-step method to replicate that issue I'm happy to try again.

Thanks,

Marc

[strikerx22]

Thanks for the reply, Marc! I'm actually becoming less and less convinced that this is an Alpine-specific issue. I cannot compile on Ubuntu or CentOS, either.

For your reference and simplicity, here's a super quick and easy way to replicate the failure and to test compile as you're programming. If you don't want the container to be deleted upon exit, just remove the --rm flag.

# Launch self-destructing Alpine container with Shell and install packages
docker run --rm -i -t alpine /bin/sh --login
apk update
apk add build-base bzip2 perl perl-digest-md5 perl-ldap perl-io-socket-ssl bash git clang gcc flex bison pcre pcre2 zlib curl make perl-regexp-tr

# Clone Git Repo then attempt to compile
git clone https://github.com/MarcJHuber/event-driven-servers.git
cd event-driven-servers
env SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure tac_plus-ng
env SHELL=/bin/bash make
env SHELL=/bin/bash make install

If you want to recreate the failure of the Makefile on CentOS, here's a the steps to replicate

# Launch self-destructing CentOS container with Bash Shell and install packages
docker run --rm -i -t centos:7 /bin/bash --login
yum update -y
yum install -y gcc make cmake perl llvm git clang cpan
yum install -y perl-Digest-SHA perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Socket perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-LDAP

# Clone Repo then attempt to compile
git clone https://github.com/MarcJHuber/event-driven-servers.git

cd event-driven-servers/

./configure tac_plus-ng
make

You should see that as of right now, both instances get stuck on Makefile.inc, line 407 due to the following error (the below output is from the CentOS 7 container

[root@70d7e238fc5a event-driven-servers]# make
Makefile.inc:407: *** invalid syntax in conditional.  Stop.
[root@70d7e238fc5a event-driven-servers]# 
[root@70d7e238fc5a event-driven-servers]# 

[strikerx22]

One last thing to help, Marc, is that I've confirmed this was broken somewhere between October 31st and now. If we clone https://github.com/dewebdes/event-driven-servers (a fork of your repo from Oct 31st), then the compile works as expected.

To replicate the compile failure:

# Launch self-destructing CentOS container with Bash Shell and install packages
docker run --rm -i -t centos:7 /bin/bash --login
yum update -y
yum install -y gcc make cmake perl llvm git clang cpan
yum install -y perl-Digest-SHA perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Socket perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-LDAP

# Clone Repo then attempt to compile
git clone https://github.com/MarcJHuber/event-driven-servers.git
cd event-driven-servers/
./configure tac_plus-ng
make

To replicate the successful compile:

# Launch self-destructing CentOS container with Bash Shell and install packages
docker run --rm -i -t centos:7 /bin/bash --login
yum update -y
yum install -y gcc make cmake perl llvm git clang cpan
yum install -y perl-Digest-SHA perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Socket perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-LDAP

# Clone Repo then attempt to compile
git clone https://github.com/dewebdes/event-driven-servers.git
cd event-driven-servers/
./configure tac_plus-ng
make
make install

Hope this helps!

[MarcJHuber]

Hi,

thanks, a closing right bracket is missing in line 407. I'll push a fix shortly.

Thanks a lot for your support in finding this!

Cheers,

Marc