Unable to build/compile on Ubuntu 18.04 ProxMox Virtual Machine (VM) #121

Describe the issue

Please provide a general summary of the issue you're experiencing

Can you reliably reproduce the issue?

If so, please list the steps to reproduce below:

Fresh 18.04 VM and then Apt update & apt upgrade
Reboot to latest kernel
Install Linux packages from README.md
Git clone the repo & cd to it
Switch to dev branch
Run ./build.sh
It fails to build with no useful information presented to determine root cause.

Expected behaviour

It should build successfully. Followed same steps on 20.04 and it worked there.

Actual behaviour + errors

It just spits this out.

 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
{{ Building Hush!! }}
 `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
        \   ^__^
         \  (@@)\_______            
            (__)\ HUSH  )\/\      $
    z        zz ||----w |      z  |
zz  zz  z       || z   ||xxx   z z|z zz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+ LCOV_ARG=
+ HARDENING_ARG=--enable-hardening
+ TEST_ARG=
+ '[' x--disable-tests = x--enable-lcov ']'
+ '[' x--disable-tests = x--disable-tests ']'
+ TEST_ARG=--enable-tests=no
+ shift
+ MINING_ARG=
+ '[' x = x--disable-mining ']'
+ head -n2
+ eval make --version
++ make --version
GNU Make 4.1
Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

The version of Hush you were using:

3.9.1 dev branch

Machine specs:

OS name + version: Ubuntu 18.04 ProxMox Virtual Machine
CPU: 1 Core
RAM: 2GB
Disk size: 33GB
Disk Type (HD/SDD): SSD
Linux kernel version (uname -a): Linux hostname 4.15.0-173-generic #182-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 15:53:46 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Compiler version (gcc -version): gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0

Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.

@jahway603 the next command in build.sh is as (the assembler), so that must be missing on your system. Usually it is installed as part of the compiler or build-essentials. We could do better and print a useful error if as is missing

I see that the 18.04 system with the issue has as installed and it's at
$ as --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.30

I see that Ubuntu 20.04 has as version 2.34

@jahway603 well that just seems weird. is it possible the PATH when you run build.sh is different and it can't be found?

Spun up a new 18.04 VM and it built perfectly fine. Must have been a strange "one of" bug or possibly a bug with the hypervisor. I'll close this since I can not reproduce it.