Error while instaling Open GRM thrax

Question

I have already installed Open Fst in Ubuntu and its working fine. Now i'm trying to install Open GRM thrax. I have tried installing with 2 different versions of thrax.

Thrax version 1.1.0:

thraxOpenGrm/thrax-1.1.0$ ./configure

below is the error that i get.

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for std::tr1::hash<long long unsigned>... yes
checking for __gnu_cxx::slist<int>... yes
checking fst/fst.h usability... yes
checking fst/fst.h presence... no
configure: WARNING: fst/fst.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: fst/fst.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
checking for fst/fst.h... yes
checking fst/extensions/far/far.h usability... yes
checking fst/extensions/far/far.h presence... no
configure: WARNING: fst/extensions/far/far.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: fst/extensions/far/far.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
checking for fst/extensions/far/far.h... yes
checking fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h usability... no
checking fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h presence... no
checking for fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h... no
configure: error: fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h header not found

Thrax version 0.1.0:

thraxOpenGrm/thrax-0.1.0$ ./configure

below is the error that i get.

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for std::tr1::hash<long long unsigned>... yes
checking for __gnu_cxx::slist<int>... yes
checking fst/fst.h usability... no
checking fst/fst.h presence... no
checking for fst/fst.h... no
configure: error: fst/fst.h header not found

It throws different errors with different thrax versions. I read a solution in this forum.

http://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/Forum/GrmThraxForum

It says openfst must be 'built' with ./configure --enable-far=true . i uninstalled openfst and installed it using ./configure --enable-far=true and also with ./configure --enable-far. The error still persists.

Answer 1

During installation of openfst you have to type:

./configure --enable-far=true --enable-pdt=true --enable-mpdt=true

Then you should install thrax and while on it, type in terminal:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Worked for me for openfst-1.5.4 and thrax-1.2.2.

When I got:

checking fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h usability... no

I added:

--enable-pdt=true

to ./configure for openfst and I did the same for mpdt error. If you get other errors, you can try doing the same.

Answer 2

if you specify ./configure --enable-far=true, it should work. Because it will install fst folder under /usr/local/include (you should run make install when install opengrm)

Answer 3

then, you may come across error like: fst/extensions/pdt/pdt.h header not found

you can add --enable-pdt=true when ./configure opengrm

Answer 4

I would try to remove openfst against and then do a find on the system to make sure all the fst/fst.h files are gone. It might be missing something or some other package might have provided one.

Also, the --enable-far should not have =true on the end. So, maybe try it that way.