[Edbrowse-dev] Problem installing git version on debian sid

[Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com>]

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Hi folks,

I have recently been using the edbrowse 3.7.1 package provided by
my package manager on two systems here, debian sid, and archlinux.
I wanted to switch to the git version on both systems, with these
results:

On archlinux, I did a git clone using the URL shown on
www.edbrowse.org, changed to the edbrowse/src directory, did a make
as normal user, and got a successful compile.

On Debian however, the make failed  because of a missing tidy.h  file.
So I then retrieved the latest tidy-html5  master.zip as per the
README, but that compile failed also, because cmake was unable to
successfully compile the simple test program.  Evidently it did not
locate the cxx compiler, which on Debian sid seems to be called cpp,
a simlink to cpp-7, and I'm not sure what to try next.

I repeated the  process capturing the output, and include it below,
about 65 lines.  Any suggestions are most welcome.

Script started on 2017-12-04 02:37:44-0500
[archie@debian cmake]$ cmake ../..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 7.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/cpp
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/cpp -- broken
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.9/Modules/CMakeTestCXXCompiler.cmake:44 (message):
   The C++ compiler "/usr/bin/cpp" is not able to compile a simple test
   program.

   It fails with the following output:

    Change Dir: /home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp



   Run Build Command:"/usr/bin/make" "cmTC_97a4d/fast"

   /usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/build.make
   CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/build

   make[1]: Entering directory
   '/home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

   Building CXX object CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o

   /usr/bin/cpp -o CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o -c
   /home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/testCXXCompiler.cxx


   cpp: fatal error: ‘-c’ is not a valid option to the preprocessor

   compilation terminated.

   CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/build.make:65: recipe for target
   'CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o' failed

   make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTC_97a4d.dir/testCXXCompiler.cxx.o] Error 1

   make[1]: Leaving directory
   '/home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

   Makefile:126: recipe for target 'cmTC_97a4d/fast' failed

   make: *** [cmTC_97a4d/fast] Error 2





   CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
   CMakeLists.txt:26 (project)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/archie/src/tidy-html5-master/build/cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
[archie@debian cmake]$ exit

Script done on 2017-12-04 02:39:06-0500


I appreciate all the work you folks have been doing and am anxious
to see some of those improvements in action.

Chuck H.


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