Error "could not detect bam" Reported During Cufflinks Compilation

Symptom

The error message "error:we could not detect bam" is displayed during Cufflinks compilation.

Key Process and Cause Analysis

• The configure file is incorrectly configured.
• <bam/version.hpp> is used to determine the BAM version in the configure file.

Conclusion and Solution

• If the configure file is incorrectly configured:
  Modify the configure file.

  1. Open the configure file.

     vi configure

  2. Press i to enter the insert mode and change no to yes in line 5380 of the configure file.

     succeeded=yes

  3. Press Esc, type :wq!, and press Enter to save the settings and exit.
• If <bam/version.hpp> is used to determine the BAM version in the configure file (actually version.h is the version file of the BAM):
  Modify the configure file.

  1. Open the configure file.

     vi configure

  2. Press i to enter the insert mode and change bam/version.hpp to bam/version.h.

     bam/version.h

  3. Press Esc, type :wq!, and press Enter to save the settings and exit.