compiling clamav on salix 13.1.1 64bit

[blakblak]

Hi all,

I am trying to compile clamav on salix 13.1.1 64bit but am running into compile problems.

I first tried install via a slackbuilds script but this complained about certain commands not found i.e.

--enable-id-check, --disable-static

So I tried compiling myself. I used ./configure --enable-check but it then came back with

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checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking check.h usability... no
checking check.h presence... no
checking for check.h... no
configure: unable to compile/link with check
configure: error: 

ERROR!  Check was configured, but not found.  Get it from http://check.sf.net/

I've googled around but there is no answer. So perhaps this is salix specific.

Do any of you know what is wrong?

tia for any light.

[thenktor]

No idea what "check" is for, but you can try "--disable-check" if check is optional.

[blakblak]

Hey thenktor

Do you have clamav installed. if so then how?

cheers

[Shador]

Is this output from configure really so puzzling?!

ERROR! Check was configured, but not found. Get it from http://check.sf.net/

This lines says very clearly that you don't have check installed but asked to use it with "--enable-check".
If even gives you an URL, if you wanted to install it.
But as I read on that page that check is a unit testing framework it seems not exactly relevant unless you were developer or tester of clamav. So as thenktor pointed out just replace "--enable-check" with "--disable-check" and maybe start reading error message, because it doesn't only save our time but also yours.

[blakblak]

Hi thanks for all the help.

I used --enable-check as looking through the clamav .pdf it said to. Not that I have used it before to install clamav in slackware. But I have always used the 32bit slack even on my 64bit system. So I thought I would give the 64bit a test. Not been easy. Anyway I installed 'check' this time it went ok. But clam is still not installed - for someover reason.

Anyway I am back to using slack13 - 32bit. Less dependency issues.

Again thanks

[gapan]

There should be no differences whatsoever conserning dependecies between 32bit and 64bit systems. No differences other than flash at all actually.

[thenktor]

There should be no differences whatsoever conserning dependecies between 32bit and 64bit systems. No differences other than flash at all actually.

And Wine

[blakblak]

Hi

Yes - wine has also been a problem.

Salix works well on my laptop though - but thats 32bit.

cheers

[thenktor]

Don't bother with Wine if you can have VirtualBox

[Shador]

Don't bother with Wine if you can have VirtualBox

Ever ran VirtualDub in VirtualBox? In fact, that's the only reason why I installed wine on my 32Bit machine and don't do that stuff on my better 64Bit one.