Installation failure

[Sunyp-IM]

I am trying to install your STAR program in a Linux cluster (CentOS 7.9) following your instruction in github, but the “make STAR” command gives the following errors:

/usr/bin/ld: htslib/libhts.a(kfunc.o): unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info
/usr/bin/ld: htslib/libhts.a(kfunc.o): unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info
/usr/bin/ld: htslib/libhts.a(bgzf.o): unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info
/usr/bin/ld: htslib/libhts.a(bgzf.o): unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info
htslib/libhts.a: error adding symbols: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

The full output of the “make” command can be found at [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alv5yU_CPAgRwzRnokE3kyZzU2muDQKf/view?usp=sharing]

Could you help me out with this problem?

Thank you very much!

[alexdobin]

Hi @Sunyp-IM

Not sure what the problem is here since it's coming from the htslib library.
Have you tried using pre-compiled STAR executables?

Also, you may want to consider this pull request that unbundles htslib PR #1586, so you can use htslib installed on your system.
I did not have time to test it, but will try to get to it soon.