error when I install libact

[maxbest]

there is something error when I install libact on mint Linux 18. What should I do?

(libact) guan@guan-virtual-machine ~/libact-master $ python setup.py build
Platform Detection: Linux. Link to liblapacke...
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'libact.query_strategies._variance_reduction' extension
C compiler: gcc -pthread -B /home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC

compile options: '-I/home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/lapacke -I/home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/include/python3.6m -c'
extra options: '-std=c11'
gcc: libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/syslimits.h:7:0,
from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/limits.h:34,
from /home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/include/python3.6m/Python.h:11,
from libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c:3:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/limits.h:168:61: fatal error: limits.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/syslimits.h:7:0,
from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/limits.h:34,
from /home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/include/python3.6m/Python.h:11,
from libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c:3:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed/limits.h:168:61: fatal error: limits.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: Command "gcc -pthread -B /home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/lapacke -I/home/guan/anaconda3/envs/libact/include/python3.6m -c libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.o -std=c11" failed with exit status 1

[yangarbiter]

Maybe you should try things in this article.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41078572/python-pip-package-installation-fails-with-fatal-error-limits-h-no-such-fil

[mlazarew]

Anybody was able to install it on RHEL5? I am getting the same errors as @maxbest

[yangarbiter]

@mlazarew can you find the limits.h header on your computer?

[mlazarew]

Yes, it is at /usr/include/linux/limits.h

[yangarbiter]

Can you try to add /usr/include/linux/ to your PATH

If this did not work, try cloning the repository, add the path to
include_dirs on line 29 https://github.com/ntucllab/libact/blob/master/setup.py#L29.
Run python setup.py install and see if it works.

[mlazarew]

Have tried both and still got

cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-std=c11"

[mlazarew]

It seems that for my gcc 4.4.6 compiler the value c11 is not a valid one for "std" parameter.

[yangarbiter]

Can you print out the error?

Though I think the fastest way is to upgrade your compiler to 4.8+

[mlazarew]

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact/query_strategies
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact/query_strategies/src
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction
compile options: '-I/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/lapacke -I/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/include/python3.6m -c'
extra options: '-std=c11'
gcc: libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c
libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c:5:21: fatal error: lapacke.h: No such file or directory
 #include <lapacke.h>
                     ^
compilation terminated.
libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c:5:21: fatal error: lapacke.h: No such file or directory
 #include <lapacke.h>
                     ^
compilation terminated.
error: Command "gcc -pthread -B /home/ec2-user/anaconda3/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/lapacke -I/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/include/python3.6m -c libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/libact/query_strategies/src/variance_reduction/variance_reduction.o -std=c11" failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------

Command "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-lh5sw7ey/libact/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ufp_l303-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-lh5sw7ey/libact/

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)

[yangarbiter]

you may have to install lapacke package

I think you can try searching openblas or lapacke in your package list and see if it works.