Unable to `make` on Ubuntu 16.04

[shivams]

I tried installing ADMS, but failed at the make point. This is the error it throws:

/bin/sed: can't read Softwares/ADMS/admsXml/libadmsElement.la: No such file or directory
libtool:   error: 'Softwares/ADMS/admsXml/libadmsElement.la' is not a valid libtool archive

[felix-salfelder]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:23:09PM -0700, shivams wrote: I tried installing ADMS, but failed at the `make` point. This is the error it throws: /bin/sed: can't read Softwares/ADMS/admsXml/libadmsElement.la: No such file or directory libtool: error: 'Softwares/ADMS/admsXml/libadmsElement.la' is not a valid libtool archive

does your source directory path contain a space character? in that case: avoid whitespace in identifiers (always). hth felix

[shivams]

@felix-salfelder : Thank you. I indeed had spaces in my source directory. Removing it solved the issue.

I had another issue during installation, which was solved by updating my dynamic libraries : sudo ldconfig.

[felix-salfelder]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:27:04PM -0700, shivams wrote: I had another issue during installation, which was solved by updating my dynamic libraries : `sudo ldconfig`.

that is a loader issue, platform bug, cache problem. whichever way, annoying, but not trivial to fix apparently. cf. #64 for a workaround attempt. I lost track of which platforms/configurations are affected. never got back to it...