from slicer-devel communication Aug 13, 2013:

Brad Lowekamp:

Andriy,

I have seen that error once before. The Swig configure options has these type of options:

--without-octave Disable Octave
--with-octave=path Set location of Octave executable
--without-java Disable Java

I might as well disable everything but python to prevent this type of error, where no dev libraries are installed for a language.

Wantto create a Mantis issue and assign it to me?

Thanks,
Brad

On Aug 13, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Andriy Fedorov <fedorov@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I think this turned out to be a special case. I just had time to look
into this now. Here's the error log with 1 thread:

checking for octave... octave
checking for mkoctfile... configure: error: mkoctfile is not installed
[ 85%] Performing build step for 'Swig'
make[4]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

googling for mkoctfile brought me to this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=955385

"sudo apt-get install octave-headers" -- and the Swig build works as expected.

AF

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Steve Pieper <pieper@ibility.net> wrote:

Hi Andrey -

Maybe there is some network issue - I just enabled simpleitk on a ubuntu
13.04 build and simpleITK built fine, but the checkout of SimpleFilters from
github is hanging (both from inside slicer's build and when I try to check
it out on the command line). A git checkout of SimpleFilters on a mac is
working fine.

-Steve

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp@mail.nih.gov>
wrote:

I believe you are correct that SimpleITK is the only super build target
which requires Swig.

It would appear that something when wrong during the download or
configuration phase of the Swig Superbuild. Have you been able to build this
before? Or did this just start to happen?

Perhaps just deleting the Swig and Swig-prefix directories will resolve
it? Can you determine if you were able to download and extract the swig tar
ball from midas?

Brad

On Aug 13, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Andriy Fedorov <fedorov@bwh.harvard.edu>
wrote:

Indeed, turning SimpleITK off allows me to proceed with the build.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Andriy Fedorov
<fedorov@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to build on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with SimpleITK on, and I have
the following build error:

[ 73%] Performing build step for 'Swig'
make[3]: No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make[2]: [Swig-prefix/src/Swig-stamp/Swig-build] Error 2
make[1]: [CMakeFiles/Swig.dir/all] Error 2
make: [all] Error 2

Configured with cmake 2.8.11.2.

AF