Hi Jim. I figured out what the problem was. By the way, thanks for telling me about the file command! I guess you learn something every day. I realized that sfvod is actually a perl script according to file, so I just changed the permissions. I also didn't realize that the rest of the binaries were installed. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hi Igor, > Somewhere within the make file they are issuing the strip command that > strips out debugging information from executables. This makes the file > considerably shorter, sometimes dramatically so. For some reason your > strip command is not recognizing the format of the executable file: > sfvod. Hopefully, somebody else can tell you why. Try 'file > /usr/local/bin/sfvod' without the apostrophes of course. If you get > something like: > elf32 binary executable > you should be okay. > > Jim Wantz > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi all. I successfully compiled the binaries it seems, however, during > > make install, I get the following strange error: > > > > Strip: /usr/local/bin/sfvod: file format not recognized. > > /usr/bin/install: strip failed. > > Make: install error 1. I'll check the install makefile and see if I can > > find something that I can possibly relate to this error. But does anyone > > have any ideas in case I might be going at this error the wrong way? > > Thanks for all the help so far! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
