master.filelist in Makefile

Hi all,

I've been trying to build a driver(that someone else wrote) and after configuring I tried to run `make` which yielded the following error:

ERROR: Could not read ./master.filelist
make[1]: *** [sort_filelist] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '~/compression/src/pkgdata'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error

After looking into the directory which the makefile expects "master.filelist" to be in(pkgdata) I see a handful of *.filelist files but no master.filelist. I couldn't find much about master.filelist being used elsewhere, but I assume it is a grouping of the *.filelist files?

Here are the lines in "Makefile" that use master.filelist:

Code:

FILELIST_FILE = ~/compression/src/pkgdata/master.filelist
...
filelist-flavorincludeHEADERS:
        @list='$(flavorinclude_HEADERS)'; for p in $$list; do \
           filelistdir="`echo $(FILELIST_FILE) | sed -e 's!/[^/]*$$!!'`"; \
          p="`echo $(flavorincludedir)/$$p | sed -e 's!^$(prefix)!!'`"; \
          echo "$$p" >> "$${filelistdir}/${GLOBUS_FLAVOR_NAME}_dev.filelist"; \
        done
...
filelist-libLTLIBRARIES: $(lib_LTLIBRARIES)
        @list='$(lib_LTLIBRARIES)'; for p in $$list; do \
          filelistdir="`echo $(FILELIST_FILE) | sed -e 's!/[^/]*$$!!'`"; \
          $(GPT_LOCATION)/sbin/gpt_get_lib_names $$p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) -old | sed -e 's!^$(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix)!!' -e 's!$(exec_prefix)!!' >> 
"$${filelistdir}/${GLOBUS_FLAVOR_NAME}_dev.filelist"; \
          $(GPT_LOCATION)/sbin/gpt_get_lib_names $$p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) -dynamic | sed -e 's!^$(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix)!!' -e 's!$(exec_prefix)!!' >>
"$${filelistdir}/${GLOBUS_FLAVOR_NAME}_rtl.filelist"; \
        done

Any help would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by GoldenSmurf

I've been trying to build a driver(that someone else wrote) and after configuring I tried to run `make` which yielded the following error:

Can you tell us more about this driver (name, device, os, ...) or is it top secret?
Can't you ask the guy who wrote it?

Bye, Andreas

Make can be pretty complicated and there is not enough info here to give you a definitive answer. You could add a --debug flag when you call make, which should give you all the info you need to track down your problem. But be warned, there are huge amounts of output that is very time consuming to sort through.

Before you get to that point, start simpler. More context (i.e. more lines) from make's output would be helpful. As far back as you need to go to determine which rule it was processing when it failed and which command in that rule it was running that couldn't find it that file. There is a lot more involved than just that master.filelist file, environment/shell variables being key. Add some commands in whatever rule is failing, to print useful information like the values of @list, filelistdir, etc. Perhaps one of those sed commands is broken and you are creating an invalid path from it. Print the current working directory at key places, perhaps you are in a different directory than make expects (not likely based on what you posted, but possible I suppose). Also, it could just be the author made a mistake.

Originally Posted by AndiPersti

Can you tell us more about this driver (name, device, os, ...) or is it top secret?
Can't you ask the guy who wrote it?

It is a driver that works with GridFTP and the Globus Toolkit's XIO in order to compress traffic. I'm building it in Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit. I'm currently waiting for a reply from the author but I am trying to figure it out while I wait.

anduril462, I will start doing what you suggest.

So it turned out the Makefile was deleting the file "master.filelist" which is why I could not find it. I worked around this by making "master.filelist" read-only and then running `make`.