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mahmood
mahmood

Reputation: 24825

asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

While building gcc, I get this error:

In file included from /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25,
             from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
             from ../.././gcc/tsystem.h:96,
             from ../.././gcc/crtstuff.c:68:
/usr/include/linux/errno.h:4:23: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/gcc-4.1.2/host-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc'

I am building gcc 4.1 from source. I think I have to install build-essential. However installing that package in ubuntu 12.04 will automatically download and install gcc 4.6 and I don't want that.

Is there any other way?

Upvotes: 53

Views: 101314

Answers (12)

Nishal S K
Nishal S K

Reputation: 1

This solved for me on Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt-get install linux-libc-dev

Upvotes: 0

Newbyte
Newbyte

Reputation: 3314

This solved it for me on Debian 10, even though I was compiling with an LLVM-based compiler:

sudo apt install gcc-multilib

Upvotes: 15

Poussy
Poussy

Reputation: 101

If you want to use errno.h that is in the asm file, simply go to /usr/(ctrl + l, type /usr/) and then search for errno.h and errno-base.h. Once you did find them, copy the code in these two files, and place them in your include folder. And be careful, in "errno.h" the file includes "errno-base.h" as:

#include <asm-generic/errno-base.h>

Either create a directory with the same name above or change the code above to something different which is suitable for you to use.

Upvotes: 0

Lamb Tan
Lamb Tan

Reputation: 1

On Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 you could try this:

ln -s /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/asm /usr/include/asm

This works on my server.

Upvotes: 0

Todd Carnes
Todd Carnes

Reputation: 71

This fixed it for me.

sudo apt-get install linux-libc-dev:i386

Upvotes: 7

nkigen
nkigen

Reputation: 450

This worked for me: 

sudo ln -s /usr/include/asm-generic /usr/include/asm

The reason being that what GCC expects to be called /usr/include/asm is renamed to /usr/include/asm-generic in some distros.

Upvotes: 29

Tiago Matias Rog&#233;rio
Tiago Matias Rog&#233;rio

Reputation: 11

I had this issue while compiling Asterisk 1.8.24.0 and solved it with:

mkdir /usr/include/asm-generic
cp /usr/include/asm/errno-base.h /usr/include/asm-generic/

Don't know if it is the "right way" but i've read the comments above and that gave me the idea... and it worked :)

Upvotes: -1

Kurt
Kurt

Reputation: 7

If you can find:

usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h

by executing:

find /usr/include -name errno.h

then try to execute:

cp --archive /usr/include/asm-generic /usr/include/asm

It may fix that problem.

Upvotes: -1

Дід Alik
Дід Alik

Reputation: 587

This worked for me:

ln -s /usr/include/asm-generic /usr/include/asm

Upvotes: 47

vonbrand
vonbrand

Reputation: 11831

You are missing part of the development packages. I don't know Ubuntu, but you should be able to ask it's package management system to install the package containing /usr/include/asm/errno.h.

Do not copy some file with a similar name from somewhere on your system (or, even worse, from somewhere else). Missing files might mean that some package is damaged; again, ask your package manager to check everything and (re)install missing/broken pieces.

Unless you are running some LTS release, upgrade. Your Ubuntu is some 2 years old, i.e., ancient.

While we are at this, why on this beautiful planet are you building such an ancient compiler? Current GCC is just released 4.9.0, anything before 4.7 is ancient history, not longer supported.

Upvotes: 2

jrr
jrr

Reputation: 2007

I think the package you want is linux-libc-dev . I encountered this when building 32-on-64; so I needed linux-libc-dev:i386 .

Upvotes: 56

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 5173

/usr/include/asm/errno.h is part of the linux headers. I can't speak directly to Ubuntu 12.04, but in general you can download the linux sources as a package for your distro and it shouldn't require you to download/install gcc. Failing that, you can manually download the linux headers for the version of your kernel (uname -a) and use an include directive to CFLAGS to specify the directory to look for those.

Edit: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic may work for you.

Upvotes: 3

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