Question

I have issue running cmake on a package residing in a mounted folder. I have full permissions on this mounted folder.

-- The C compiler identification is unknown
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- broken
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:50 (MESSAGE):
The C compiler "/usr/bin/gcc" is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:

Change Dir: /home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp



Run Build Command:/usr/bin/make "cmTryCompileExec/fast"

/usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build.make
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build

make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 0.38 s in the future

make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

make[1]: Warning: File `CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/flags.make' has
modification time 0.35 s in the future

/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report
/home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CMakeFiles 1

Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.o

/usr/bin/gcc -o CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.o -c
/home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/testCCompiler.c

cc1: error:
/home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/testCCompiler.c:
Value too large for defined data type

make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.o] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/X/win_tmp/cmake/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

make: *** [cmTryCompileExec/fast] Error 2


CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:2 (project)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Cmake seems to run fine when I copy the package on to my linux filesystem.

Thanks,
Gudge

Answer 1

According to this link, the error Value too large for defined data type has to do with gcc executing stat() on Samba-mounted file systems. The inode returned is apparently rather large for those file systems.

The solution is to ensure your mount command has nounix,noserverino in the options column (in /etc/fstab or equivalent).

See the mount.cifs man page for further details.