My Book World edition problems

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I’ve been running Firefly on my Windows PC for a while and think it’s great! I just got a WD My Book World Edition today, and I want to get it set up on that so I can access my music on my Roku even when the computer’s not turned on. But I’m a complete Linux noob and I’m having some problems. Here they are…

SQLite: When I run ./configure, I get the error:

checking build system type... Invalid configuration `armv5tejl-unknown-linux-': machine `armv5tejl-unknown-linux' not recognized

configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub armv5tejl-unknown-linux- failed

I then can’t run the make command either.

ZLib: This comes up on running ./configure:

Checking for gcc...

Building static library libz.a version 1.2.3 with cc.

Checking for unistd.h... No.

Checking whether to use vs[n]printf() or s[n]printf()... using s[n]printf()

Checking for snprintf() in stdio.h... No.

WARNING: snprintf() not found, falling back to sprintf(). zlib

can build but will be open to possible buffer-overflow security

vulnerabilities.

Checking for return value of sprintf()... No.

WARNING: apparently sprintf() does not return a value. zlib

can build but will be open to possible string-format security

vulnerabilities.

Checking for errno.h... No.

Checking for mmap support... No.

..and then when I try to run make I get this:

cc -O -DNO_snprintf -DHAS_sprintf_void -DNO_ERRNO_H   -c -o example.o example.c

make: cc: Command not found

make: *** [example.o] Error 127

LibID3tag: I get the following error…

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking build system type... armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu

checking host system type... armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu

checking for gcc... no

checking for cc... no

checking for cc... no

checking for cl... no

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

See `config.log' for more details.

Firefly: I get much the same thing…

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking for gcc... no

checking for cc... no

checking for cc... no

checking for cl... no

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

See `config.log' for more details.

Anyone got any ideas?!

[Anonymous]

Hello. Sorry to reply to my own post, I know that’s bad form, but thought it might be of use to let people know how I fixed this.

It appears that some MBWs no longer come with gcc installed – it was removed as part of the last firmware. So to run any of this stuff, you have to put it back first!

This is why I love open-source stuff… ‘cos step-by-step instructions which work perfectly to do this are here:
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-50241/tutorial:how-to-recover-gcc-after-firmware-2-00-15-upgrade

Hope that’s of use. My Makes are running right now 🙂

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