Installation: failing the tests

[Andreas Stolcke]

Mr.SpOOn wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new here.
>
> I'm trying to install SRILM on an Ubuntu 8.04. I thought I built
> everything fine, but I get errors  in the test phase (point 7 of the
> INSTALL file).
>
> When I give the command:
>
> make all
>
> it starts the tests and appear a lot of things like this:
>
> *** Running test hidden-ngram ***
> Command exited with non-zero status 127
> 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 66%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+8outputs (0major+600minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> hidden-ngram: stdout output DIFFERS.
> hidden-ngram: stderr output DIFFERS.
>
> When it finishes and I check the output files, I find that all .stdout
> files are empty, while in the .stderr ones there are errors like
> these:
>
> ./run-test: 16: ngram: not found
> ./run-test: 19: ngram-count: not found
> ./run-test: 22: ngram: not found
>
> Now I don't really know what to do. What can be the problem?
>   
It looks like the executables (ngram etc.) weren't generated.    Make 
sure $SRILM/bin/i686 actually contains
these files.  If not then examine the make output for error messages 
from the compiler or linker.
> I think I set the environment variables right. I put them in the ~/.bashrc file.
>
> I did so:
>
> SRILM=/home/carlo/ordinami/srilm
>
> PATH3=$SRILM/bin/i686:$SRILM/bin
>
> PATH=$PATH:$PATH1:$PATH2:$PATH3
> PATH=$PATH:"~/bin/"
> MANPATH=$MANPATH:$SRILM/man
>
> export PATH ALIGN_BASE MANPATH
>
>
> Can you help me?
>   
If it looks like the executable were generated, try 'which ngram' and 
see if they are found.

Andreas

> Thanks.
>