Kali installation kalibrate-rtl (kalibrate for rtl-sdr) error reporting

[gameking2oo8]

root@kali:# cd kalibrate-rtl/
root@kali:/kalibrate-rtl# ./bootstrap
root@kali:/kalibrate-rtl# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
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 whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for working strtod... yes
checking for floor... no
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for memset... yes
checking for sqrt... no
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for FFTW3... yes
checking for LIBRTLSDR... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
root@kali:/kalibrate-rtl# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl/src'
g++ -I/ -g -O2 -o kal kal-arfcn_freq.o kal-c0_detect.o kal-circular_buffer.o kal-fcch_detector.o kal-kal.o kal-offset.o kal-usrp_source.o kal-util.o -lfftw3 -L -lrtlsdr -lrt
/usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::~usrp_source()': /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:81: undefined reference to rtlsdr_close'
/usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::tune(double)': /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:127: undefined reference to rtlsdr_set_center_freq'
/usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::set_gain(float)': /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:154: undefined reference to rtlsdr_set_tuner_gain_mode'
/usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:159: undefined reference to rtlsdr_set_tuner_gain' /usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::open(unsigned int)':
/root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:175: undefined reference to rtlsdr_get_device_count' /usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:183: undefined reference to rtlsdr_get_device_name'
/usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:186: undefined reference to rtlsdr_get_device_name' /usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:190: undefined reference to rtlsdr_open'
/usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:197: undefined reference to rtlsdr_set_sample_rate' /usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:202: undefined reference to rtlsdr_reset_buffer'
/usr/bin/ld: /root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:202: undefined reference to rtlsdr_reset_buffer' /usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::fill(unsigned int, unsigned int*)':
/root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:229: undefined reference to rtlsdr_read_sync' /usr/bin/ld: kal-usrp_source.o: in function usrp_source::set_freq_correction(int)':
/root/kalibrate-rtl/src/usrp_source.cc:142: undefined reference to `rtlsdr_set_freq_correction'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:401: kal] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:376: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl'
make: *** [Makefile:317: all] Error 2

I don't know what's wrong.

[CompKingCanada]

Same here. Can't compile

[knatsakis]

I have had the same issue with ubuntu/disco and librtlsdr-dev version 0.6-1.

In my case the problem was caused by the invalid pkg-config file at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/librtlsdr.pc that comes with version 0.6-1.

I fixed it by upgrading librtsdr-dev to version 0.6-2 from ubuntu/eoan.

[robrackn]

try adjusting /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/librtlsdr.pc
I'm still running librtlsdr-dev 0.6-1

Had the same/similar issue on a RasPi 4 aarch64 running Raspbian 10 (Buster).
undefined usrp_source was my issue.
I modified /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/librtlsdr.pc to the following to find the missing references:

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

The missing references in my situation are all related to ./src/usrp_source.cc:line xxx:
rtlsdr_get_device_name' rtlsdr_get_device_name'
rtlsdr_open' rtlsdr_set_sample_rate'
rtlsdr_reset_buffer' rtlsdr_reset_buffer'
usrp_source::fill(unsigned int, unsigned int*)': rtlsdr_read_sync'

[jeff-luszcz]

robrackn's librtlsdr.pc fix above was what allowed me to finally compile calibrate-rtl on my raspberry pi running the SatNOGS "Raspbian image with SatNOGS Client Ansible "

If you are banging your head on alternative rtlsdr compiles and whatnot, try this first.

On my systems the left hand side was present but all the variables to the right were blank.
A quick edit fixed the compile problems right away.

[conradstorz]

Worked for me too. Same problem of the missing variables. I simply used sudo nano /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/librtlsdr.pc to edit the file.

[SloCompTech]

If anybody still needs solution, I fixed it with sed:

cd build
cmake ../  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR:PATH=lib && \
		sed -i 's/^prefix=.*/prefix=\/usr/g' librtlsdr.pc && \
		sed -i 's/^exec_prefix=.*/exec_prefix=\$\{prefix\}/g' librtlsdr.pc && \
		sed -i 's/^libdir=.*/libdir=\$\{exec_prefix\}\/lib/g' librtlsdr.pc && \
		sed -i 's/^includedir=.*/includedir=\$\{prefix\}\/include/g' librtlsdr.pc

[JamesSmi-ux]

I have the same problem.. My kal doesn't work..is not searching for frequencies.. what can I do ?
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collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:403: kal] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:378: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/kalibrate-rtl'
make: *** [Makefile:319: all] Error 2

Thank you