David

It might be that you deviate from the recommended install instructions earlier. Cactus and the Einstein Toolkit contain many thorns, and not all thorns build on all systems. Quite unfortunately, Cactus's default behaviour is to actually try and build all thorns it finds, which is the thing that is "it's about time". If you provide a thorn list when creating a new configuration, then you'll build far fewer thorns -- in particular you'll build only thorns that are officially supported and should work out of the box.

I don't think there is ever a case where I'd want to build all thorns that Cactus finds. Thus the default of creating a thorn list from all thorns isn't good. It should be changed to abort with an error instead, requiring an explicit thorn list.

-erik


On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:43 PM, David Rosenberg <drdnrosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
The fact that 'lbncurses' and 'lua' don't compile is an old story the answer to is all over the internet.  ld gives a message back exit 1 while trying to compile  these, 'ltermcap' routine is missing. Many many people have posted this problem  and solutions which I wasted 2 months of my spare time on.  It's about time you either fixed these library routines or at least warned people about this long standing problem.   David Rosenberg

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:29 PM, David Rosenberg <drdnrosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for my ignorance but put your Verbose instructions in makefile.. Attached are the  Cactus output. File A is the gmake config and File B is just gmake. The build log are very small but also attached. The two problem libraries were in /Cactus/configs/Cactus/scratch. the libncurses config log is attached. lua did not have one.  Thank you for any help.  David Rosenberg.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Einstein Toolkit <trac-noreply@einsteintoolkit.org> wrote:
#1938: trouble installing readline
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  Reporter:  drdnrosenberg@…          |       Owner:  David Rosenberg
      Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new
  Priority:  critical                 |   Milestone:  ET_2016_11
 Component:  Cactus                   |     Version:  ET_2015_05
Resolution:                           |    Keywords:
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Comment (by sbrandt):

 Ah, now I understand. Lua does not actually *need* readline however. It
 can be compiled without it.

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