[SRILM User List] [Fwd: SRILM install problem]

[Andreas Stolcke]

On 1/15/2012 10:53 PM, nishthajaiswal at cdacnoida.in wrote:
> ------------------------------- Original Message -------------------------------
> Subject: SRILM install problem
> From:    nishthajaiswal at cdacnoida.in
> Date:    Mon, January 16, 2012 12:19 pm
> To:      srilm-user at speech.sri.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi
>
> Unable to install srilm on my fedora 8.
> Following error is coming when giving on giving make World
>
> mkdir include lib bin
> mkdir: cannot create directory `include': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `lib': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `bin': File exists
> make: [dirs] Error 1 (ignored)
> make init
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/srilm'
> for subdir in misc dstruct lm flm lattice utils; do \
>                  (cd $subdir/src; make SRILM=/root/srilm MACHINE_TYPE=i686
> OPTION= MAKE_PIC= init) || exit 1; \
>          done
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/srilm/misc/src'
> cd ..; /root/srilm/sbin/make-standard-directories
> /bin/sh: /root/srilm/sbin/make-standard-directories: /bin/csh: bad interpreter:
 From this last message it seems you don't have the C-shell installed.
I believe csh (or sometimes called tcsh) is optional in some Linux 
distributions.

Note the most recent beta version of SRILM no longer required csh, so 
another solution is to get that.

Andreas