Building frustration (on Oracle Linux 7.2, CentOS 7 and Fedora 23, solved)

[Doug Simon]

Thanks for the extra troubleshooting Raffaello. I’ve linked to this thread from the Instructions wiki page.

> On 28 Dec 2015, at 18:47, Raffaello Giulietti <raffaello.giulietti at supsi.ch> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-12-27 22:03, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
>> On 2015-12-27 20:30, Doug Simon wrote:
>>>> I hope I'm such an idiot to have forgotten something trivial.
>>> 
>>> No, you’re absolutely not. I ran into the same issue recently when I obtained a VM running "Oracle Linux 7 u1”. The problem is that the HotSpot build system wants to statically link in the stdc++ library and (in my case at least), there is no static version of libstdc++. That is, there is no libstdc++*.a files next to the libstdc++.so* files. My solution was to patch the relevant HotSpot make file to enable dynamic linking of the C++ library:
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> After your note about the static version of the library, I found the
>> right and "official" package at
>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/optional/latest/x86_64/index.html
>> 
>> I just downloaded
>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/optional/latest/x86_64/getPackage/libstdc++-static-4.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
>> on the hard-drive and installed it from there. My yum cannot find it in
>> the standard repositories but I didn't reconfigure them.
>> 
>> After this, the build proceeds successfully.
>> 
>> I think this solution is cleaner than a patch in the makefile. Maybe it
>> is something worth documenting somewhere.
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Raffaello
>> 
> 
> 
> Today I also successfully built Truffle/Graal on CentOS 7 and Fedora 23,
> in addition to Oracle Linux 7.2 from yesterday's experiments.
> 
> 
> At first, I faced the same problem as in Oracle Linux 7.2, namely that
> libstdc++.a is *not* installed by default. Since all of them are RedHat
> variants, it might happen with similar distributions, too. I didn't
> check, though.
> 
> 
> As with Oracle 7.2, you need to install the static library explicitly.
> This is easier on CentOS 7 and Fedora 23. All you have to do is:
>  sudo yum install libstdc++-static
> 
> 
> For Oracle 7.2 you either download the .rpm from
> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/optional/latest/x86_64/getPackage/libstdc++-static-4.8.5-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
> and install it, or you tweak with the repositories so that you can use
> yum as above.
> 
> 
> Further, you might need to install Mercurial and Ant if they're not present:
>  sudo yum install hg
>  sudo yum install ant
> 
> 
> You also need the Oracle JDK 8, for which I suggest the .rpm variant.
> After installing the JDK, you might also want to:
>  sudo alternatives --config java
> 
> and choose Oracle's JDK when requested.
> 
> 
> It turns out that, on Fedora 23, you also need to install the g++
> toolchain explicitly:
>  sudo yum install gnu-c++
> 
> 
> Then follow the instructions on
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Instructions and you should
> end up with a working Truffle/Graal environment, including a working IGV.
> 
> 
> Many thanks to Doug for pointing out the static library problem in the
> first place.
> 
> 
> @Oracle Labs/@JKU people:
> 
> The error message encountered during the build when the static
> libstdc++.a library is missing, is rather confusing. It does not suggest
> that the problem comes from the missing *static* library. Perhaps it can
> be made more clear by suggesting to install the static library.
> 
> 
> Take care
> Raffaello