Building with Makefiles instructions incorrect

[mafrosis]

Hi, I'm having to build libsass from source since there's no Debian package as yet, and the instructions on the wiki aren't working for me:

https://github.com/sass/libsass/wiki/Building-with-makefiles

> make -C libsass -j5 sassc
make: *** libsass: No such file or directory.  Stop.

Or:

> make -j5 sassc
make -C sassc
make[1]: *** sassc: No such file or directory.  Stop.
Makefile:283: recipe for target 'sassc/bin/sassc' failed
make: *** [sassc/bin/sassc] Error 2

Running just make creates lib/libsass.a, but I need the compiler too.

I'm using Debian jessie 64-bit. Thanks!

[saper]

Can you check which directory are you in? If you have checked out git repository and didn't cd into it, the make -C libsass command works. -C just means "change into that directory". So, if you are inside of the libsass directory, just do make -j5

If you have more issues, please post a complete log with the git clone and the sequence of commands you are trying.

[mafrosis]

Yeah I cd'd into libsass first, which explains the No such file of directory. If I run make -j5, all that's produced is lib/libsass.a.

I deleted the libsass directory and re-cloned it - and had another unexpected outcome:

> make -j5 sassc                                                                                                                  5:13:57
mkdir lib
cc -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/cencode.o src/cencode.c
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/ast.o src/ast.cpp
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/base64vlq.o src/base64vlq.cpp
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/bind.o src/bind.cpp
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/color_maps.o src/color_maps.cpp
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/constants.o src/constants.cpp
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/context.o src/context.cpp
In file included from src/context.hpp:18:0,
                 from src/ast.hpp:35,
                 from src/color_maps.cpp:1:
src/plugins.hpp:7:28: fatal error: sass/functions.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sass/functions.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
In file included from src/context.hpp:18:0,
                 from src/ast.hpp:35,
                 from src/bind.cpp:2:
src/plugins.hpp:7:28: fatal error: sass/functions.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sass/functions.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
In file included from src/context.hpp:18:0,
                 from src/ast.hpp:35,
                 from src/ast.cpp:1:
src/plugins.hpp:7:28: fatal error: sass/functions.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sass/functions.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
g++ -Wall -O2 -DLIBSASS_VERSION="\"3.3.0-beta2\"" -std=c++0x -I /opt/libsass/libsass/include -fPIC -fPIC -c -o src/cssize.o src/cssize.cpp
In file included from src/context.hpp:18:0,
                 from src/ast.hpp:35,
                 from src/context.cpp:14:
src/plugins.hpp:7:28: fatal error: sass/functions.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sass/functions.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
In file included from src/context.hpp:18:0,
                 from src/ast.hpp:35,
                 from src/cssize.hpp:4,
                 from src/cssize.cpp:5:
src/plugins.hpp:7:28: fatal error: sass/functions.h: No such file or directory
 #include "sass/functions.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
Makefile:230: recipe for target 'src/color_maps.o' failed
make: *** [src/color_maps.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:230: recipe for target 'src/bind.o' failed
make: *** [src/bind.o] Error 1
Makefile:230: recipe for target 'src/ast.o' failed
make: *** [src/ast.o] Error 1
Makefile:230: recipe for target 'src/context.o' failed
make: *** [src/context.o] Error 1
Makefile:230: recipe for target 'src/cssize.o' failed
make: *** [src/cssize.o] Error 1

[saper]

Yeah I cd'd into libsass first, which explains the No such file of directory. If I run make -j5, all that's produced is lib/libsass.a.

This is ok. A static library has been produced correctly.

You can add BUILD=shared parameter if you would like to have libsass.so generated.

It's easy to end up in the chicken-and-egg scenario - libsass needs sassc
for testing, sassc needs libsass to build. That's why your "make -C sassc"
build starts building... libsass.

What you should do is to build libsass first (I think this succeeded on your side)
and then build sassc again.

[mafrosis]

For whatever reason, I just could not get this to compile. However, I used the instructions from over here with success:

https://github.com/sass/sassc/blob/master/docs/building/unix-instructions.md

[xzyfer]

It's entirely likely this documentation is just out of date. The SassC docs are much more recent which would explain why they worked.

There is work to migrate docs from the wiki to the codebase to help keep it up to date #1226.