Re: Compilation issue-Newbie to Networkmanager.

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Friday 25 of June 2010 06:27:40 Sathia Narayanan wrote:
> Can someone help me in compiling network manager code in Ubuntu. I tried
> compiling and it gives Makefile.in generated from Makefile.am. When I try
> to compile it says nothing to make. I copied Makefile.in as Makefile and
> tried to see that gives missing separator error. My ./configure shows like
> this. my make file is in /usr/bin/Make.
> 
> The steps in the website for networkmanager is not helping to compile the
> code.
> 
> 
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking minix/config.h usability... no
> checking minix/config.h presence... no
> checking for minix/config.h... no
> checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
> checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
> checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
> checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
> checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
> checking for objdump... objdump
> checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
> checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
> yes
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking fcntl.h usability... yes
> checking fcntl.h presence... yes
> checking for fcntl.h... yes
> checking paths.h usability... yes
> checking paths.h presence... yes
> checking for paths.h... yes
> checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
> checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> checking syslog.h usability... yes
> checking syslog.h presence... yes
> checking for syslog.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for mode_t... yes
> checking for pid_t... yes
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
> checking for working memcmp... yes
> checking for select... yes
> checking for socket... yes
> checking for uname... yes
> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.41.0 found
> checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
> checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
> checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.10.1
> checking for XML::Parser... ok
> checking locale.h usability... yes
> checking locale.h presence... yes
> checking for locale.h... yes
> checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
> checking libintl.h usability... yes
> checking libintl.h presence... yes
> checking for libintl.h... yes
> checking for ngettext in libc... yes
> checking for dgettext in libc... yes
> checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
> checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for dcgettext... yes
> checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
> checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
> checking for /etc/redhat-release... no
> checking for /etc/SuSE-release... no
> checking for /etc/fedora-release... no
> checking for /etc/gentoo-release... no
> checking for /etc/debian_version... yes
> checking for /etc/arch-release... no
> checking for /etc/slackware-version... no
> checking for /etc/frugalware-release... no
> checking for /etc/mandriva-release... no
> checking for /etc/pardus-release... no
> checking Linux Wireless Extensions >= 18... no
> configure: error: wireless-tools library and development headers >= 28pre9
> not installed or not functional

The error on the  last line says you all. You are missing wireless tools 
development libraries. Install it via:
sudo apt-get install libiw-dev 

In general, NetworkManager requires several dependencies to build (libraries 
it depends on). When configuring it checks their presence and reports the 
result.
To get the list of dependency packages on Ubuntu you can run:
sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager

Jirka