Error in building cufflinks

Question

[AHW]

I am trying to building cufflinks from the source. I installed boost, samtools, Eigen repo and then after I tried to build cufflinks.

On trying

./configure --prefix=/home/hussain/cufflinks-2.2.1  --with-boost=/usr/include/boost --with-bam=/home/hussain/samtools-0.1.19

i get the following messages and eventually leads to error

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) mawk
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.4... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.7
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
checking for boostlib >= 1.47.0... yes

checking for bamlib... configure: error: We could not detect the bam libraries (version or higher). If you have a staged bam library (still not installed) please specify $BAM_ROOT in your environment and do not give a PATH to --with-bam option. If you are sure you have bam installed, then check your version number looking in <bam version.hpp="">. See http://randspringer.de/bam for more documentation. hussain@hussain-WIV68B55-0346:~/cufflinks-2.2.1$

Its very hectic and frustrating to get this error after trying to set path variables and other options. What is going wrong.

Answer 1

[Sanjiv Kumar]

Someone in one of the google groups wrote this " rename version.p to version.hpp. This file is located in your samtools folder try to find version.p in /usr/local/include/bam and rename it to version.hpp" This method worked for me too.

[kvshamsudheen]

Frustratingly, now, it is sudo cp /usr/local/include/bam/version.h /usr/local/include/bam/version.hpp

Answer 2

[Sanjiv Kumar]

Use http://cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/cufflinks/install/ to download pre-compiled library for your OS, to get working, while you try to solve building from source. I had tough time too building it from the source.