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Task
jq
Model
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gpt-5-mini-high
Status
Success
Performance
Cost$0.011
Total elapsed time1m48s
LLM inference time1m34s
Command execution time14s
Commands executed7
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Attempt ID aqtaxaa2l9l0q Attempt group run-16-09-22-05
Revision fb5c74bd2fee AWS Instance m8i.2xlarge
Start time 2025-09-16T21:28:25.267Z End time 2025-09-16T21:30:13.319Z
Task jq Environment ubuntu-22.04-amd64-offline
Model gpt-5-mini-high logo gpt-5-mini-high OpenRouter slug openai/gpt-5-mini
Temperature 1 Explicit prompt caching false
User msg after tool call false Max tool calls 50
Total timeout seconds 900 Single command timeout 600
Cost $0.011 Duration 1m48s
LLM inference time 1m34s Command execution time 14s
Final context tokens 10,119 Total output tokens 4,139
Output reasoning tokens 3,648 Messages 17
Assistant messages 8 User messages 1
System messages 1 Commands executed 7
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Task
Task: jq

jq 1.8.1 is a command-line JSON utility for viewing and transforming JSON.
Project link: github.com/jqlang/jq

Task:
Compile and install jq to a specific location.

Difficulties:
Standard autotools setup, nothing special.

Environment:
Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64, without internet access.

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Execution log
SYSTEM

You are a package-building specialist operating a Ubuntu 22.04 bash shell via one tool: run_terminal_cmd.
The current working directory of every run_terminal_cmd is /home/peter.
Execution rules:
- Always pass non-interactive flags for any command that could prompt (e.g., -y, --yes, DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive).
- Don't include any newlines in the command.
- The environment is offline, assume you have all the necessary tools already installed.
If you encounter any errors or issues while doing the user's request, you must fix them and continue the task.
At the end verify you did the user request correctly.

USER

You are given jq v1.8.1 source code at jq.tar.gz. Please compile the jq package and install it to /home/peter/result. Create a symlink from /home/peter/result/jq to the actual binary.

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Show reasoning

Considering jq build steps

I need to recall building jq offline but with the necessary tools like gcc, autoconf, automake, and libtool. I think jq 1.8 involves using oniguruma for regex, and historically, jq 1.6 had it as optional while 1.8 added vendored support. I'll follow typical build steps: first, I'll extract the tarball, then check the directory name created. After that, I’ll configure it to the install directory and run the make commands while ensuring everything is set correctly.Configuring jq installation

Using --prefix=/home/peter/result makes sense for the installation. I'll need to create a symlink at /home/peter/result/jq that points to the actual binary at /home/peter/result/bin/jq. To verify the installation, I can run /home/peter/result/jq --version to check that the symlink is working and executable. I have specific constraints, like avoiding newlines in my command strings since I'll be using run_terminal_cmd. I need to ensure everything runs smoothly, especially with automatic prompts. I'll start by checking the content of the tarball.Planning command execution

I need to run commands separately to inspect and handle errors properly while capturing outputs for the user. I’ll start with a plan: First, I'll list the contents of /home/peter to check if jq.tar.gz exists by running ls -l jq.tar.gz. Then, I’ll list the contents of the tarball using tar -tzf jq.tar.gz, ensuring I avoid newlines. After that, I’ll extract the tar with tar xzf jq.tar.gz and confirm the directory created. Finally, I'll navigate into that directory and run the configuration commands!Simulating the configuration process

I’ll start with the command cd dir && ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/home/peter/result, but I have to be prepared for the situation where the configure script is missing. To handle this, I’ll use an if statement: if the configure script exists, I’ll run it; otherwise, I’ll call autoreconf before running configure. I also want to ensure that autoreconf is installed. After that, I’ll use make -j$(nproc) and then proceed to make install, which should correctly install to /home/peter/result. Finally, I’ll create a symlink to jq.Executing step-by-step commands

To ensure everything goes smoothly, I'll run the commands step-by-step. First, I'll check if the tarball jq.tar.gz exists by using ls -l jq.tar.gz. Then, I’ll list its contents with tar tzf jq.tar.gz | head -n1 to identify the top directory. After extracting it using tar xzf jq.tar.gz, I’ll capture the directory name. Since each shell invocation doesn’t retain variables, I’ll parse the output and use the printed name to navigate into that directory. Time to run the first command!

compile-bench> ls -l jq.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 2026798 Sep 16 21:28 jq.tar.gz
ASSISTANT
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Listing tar contents

I've got a tarball present, and the next step is to list the top-level contents. I’ll run the command tar tzf jq.tar.gz | head -n1 to do that, using a pipe to get the first line of output without any extra newlines. It feels like a straightforward task, and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s inside the tarball! Let’s get on with it.

compile-bench> tar tzf jq.tar.gz | head -n1
jq-1.8.1/
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Executing extraction commands

Alright, the top directory is jq-1.8.1, which is good. I need to extract it using tar xzf jq.tar.gz. After extraction, I’ll want to list the directory contents, so I’ll use ls -la jq-1.8.1 | head -n 40. But really, I think it's better to run sequential commands, like tar xzf jq.tar.gz; ls -la jq-1.8.1, using && to ensure if one command fails, it stops the entire operation. So I'll proceed with tar xzf jq.tar.gz && ls -la jq-1.8.1.

compile-bench> tar xzf jq.tar.gz && ls -la jq-1.8.1
total 1184
drwxr-xr-x 9 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 .
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter   4096 Sep 16 21:29 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  10686 Jul  1 11:39 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   7887 Jul  1 11:39 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  33286 Jul  1 11:39 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   9090 Jul  1 11:39 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  75461 Jul  1 11:39 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  24670 Jul  1 11:39 NEWS.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   2434 Jul  1 11:39 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  46459 Jul  1 11:39 aclocal.m4
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 peter peter 665647 Jul  1 11:39 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   9881 Jul  1 11:39 configure.ac
drwxr-xr-x 5 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 124253 Jul  1 11:39 jq.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 124253 Jul  1 11:39 jq.1.prebuilt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   1431 Jul  1 11:39 jq.spec
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    255 Jul  1 11:39 libjq.pc
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter    246 Jul  1 11:39 libjq.pc.in
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 m4
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 src
drwxr-xr-x 4 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 tests
drwxr-xr-x 4 peter peter   4096 Jul  1 11:40 vendor
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compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/home/peter/result
checking for gcc... gcc
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 the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for file... file
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checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for file... file
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for stdio.h... yes
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checking for string.h... yes
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checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/times.h... yes
checking size of int... 4
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checking size of void*... 8
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
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 test/Makefile
config.status: creating sample/Makefile
config.status: creating onig-config
config.status: creating src/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default commands
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Show reasoning

Preparing to compile jq

I see that the configuration succeeded, so next, I’ll run the make command. I will navigate into the jq-1.8.1 directory and execute make -j$(nproc) to compile it using all available processing cores. I expect the output might be lengthy, but that’s okay; I’ll capture it to check for any issues! Let’s get started and hope everything goes smoothly.

compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && make -j$(nproc)
mkdir -p src
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/builtin.inc
  GEN      src/config_opts.inc
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
Making all in vendor/oniguruma
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
Making all in src
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make  all-am
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regparse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regparse.Tpo -c -o regparse.lo regparse.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regcomp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regcomp.Tpo -c -o regcomp.lo regcomp.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regexec.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regexec.Tpo -c -o regexec.lo regexec.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regenc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regenc.Tpo -c -o regenc.lo regenc.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regerror.Tpo -c -o regerror.lo regerror.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regext.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regext.Tpo -c -o regext.lo regext.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regsyntax.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regsyntax.Tpo -c -o regsyntax.lo regsyntax.c
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I..  -Wall   -g -O2 -MT regtrav.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regtrav.Tpo -c -o regtrav.lo regtrav.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regcomp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regcomp.Tpo -c regcomp.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regcomp.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regerror.Tpo -c regerror.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regerror.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regexec.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regexec.Tpo -c regexec.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regexec.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regext.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regext.Tpo -c regext.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regext.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regenc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regenc.Tpo -c regenc.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regenc.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regtrav.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regtrav.Tpo -c regtrav.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regtrav.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regsyntax.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regsyntax.Tpo -c regsyntax.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regsyntax.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -MT regparse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regparse.Tpo
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koi8_r.o .libs/cp1251.o .libs/onig_init.o    -g -O2   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libonig.so.5 -o .libs/libonig.so.5.5.0
libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libonig.so.5" && ln -s "libonig.so.5.5.0" "libonig.so.5")
libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libonig.so" && ln -s "libonig.so.5.5.0" "libonig.so")
libtool: link: ar cr .libs/libonig.a  regparse.o regcomp.o regexec.o regenc.o regerror.o regext.o regsyntax.o regtrav.o regversion.o st.o reggnu.o unicode.o unicode_unfold_key.o unicode_fold1_key.o unicode_fold2_key.o unicode_fold3_key.o ascii.o utf8.o utf16_be.o utf16_le.o utf32_be.o utf32_le.o euc_jp.o euc_jp_prop.o sjis.o sjis_prop.o iso8859_1.o iso8859_2.o iso8859_3.o iso8859_4.o iso8859_5.o iso8859_6.o iso8859_7.o iso8859_8.o iso8859_9.o iso8859_10.o iso8859_11.o iso8859_13.o iso8859_14.o iso8859_15.o iso8859_16.o euc_tw.o euc_kr.o big5.o gb18030.o koi8_r.o cp1251.o onig_init.o
libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libonig.a
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libonig.la" && ln -s "../libonig.la" "libonig.la" )
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
Making all in test
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
Making all in sample
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/sample'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
sed -e 's,[@]datadir[@],/home/peter/result/share,g' -e 's,[@]datarootdir[@],/home/peter/result/share,g' -e 's,[@]PACKAGE_VERSION[@],6.9.10,g' -e 's,[@]prefix[@],/home/peter/result,g' -e 's,[@]exec_prefix[@],/home/peter/result,g' -e 's,[@]libdir[@],/home/peter/result/lib,g' -e 's,[@]includedir[@],/home/peter/result/include,g' < ./oniguruma.pc.in > oniguruma.pc
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
  CC       src/builtin.lo
  CC       src/bytecode.lo
  CC       src/compile.lo
  CC       src/execute.lo
  CC       src/jq_test.lo
  CC       src/jv.lo
  CC       src/jv_alloc.lo
  CC       src/jv_aux.lo
  CC       src/jv_dtoa.lo
  CC       src/jv_file.lo
  CC       src/jv_parse.lo
  CC       src/jv_print.lo
  CC       src/jv_unicode.lo
  CC       src/linker.lo
  CC       src/locfile.lo
  CC       src/util.lo
  CC       src/jv_dtoa_tsd.lo
  CC       vendor/decNumber/decContext.lo
  CC       vendor/decNumber/decNumber.lo
  CC       src/lexer.lo
  CC       src/parser.lo
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
  CC       src/main.o
  CCLD     libjq.la
  CCLD     jq
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
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compile-bench> cd jq-1.8.1 && make install
mkdir -p src
  GEN      src/version.h
make  install-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
Making install in vendor/oniguruma
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma'
Making install in src
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/lib'
 /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libonig.la '/home/peter/result/lib'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libonig.so.5.5.0 /home/peter/result/lib/libonig.so.5.5.0
libtool: install: (cd /home/peter/result/lib && { ln -s -f libonig.so.5.5.0 libonig.so.5 || { rm -f libonig.so.5 && ln -s libonig.so.5.5.0 libonig.so.5; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /home/peter/result/lib && { ln -s -f libonig.so.5.5.0 libonig.so || { rm -f libonig.so && ln -s libonig.so.5.5.0 libonig.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libonig.lai /home/peter/result/lib/libonig.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libonig.a /home/peter/result/lib/libonig.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /home/peter/result/lib/libonig.a
libtool: install: ranlib /home/peter/result/lib/libonig.a
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /home/peter/result/lib
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Libraries have been installed in:
   /home/peter/result/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
     during execution
   - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
     during linking
   - use the '-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
   - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to '/etc/ld.so.conf'

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/include'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 oniguruma.h oniggnu.h '/home/peter/result/include'
make  install-data-hook
make[5]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-hook'.
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/src'
Making install in test
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1/vendor/oniguruma/test'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[4]: Nothing to be d
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h /home/peter/result/lib src/builtin.lo src/bytecode.lo src/compile.lo src/execute.lo src/jq_test.lo src/jv.lo src/jv_alloc.lo src/jv_aux.lo src/jv_dtoa.lo src/jv_file.lo src/jv_parse.lo src/jv_print.lo src/jv_unicode.lo src/linker.lo src/locfile.lo src/util.lo src/jv_dtoa_tsd.lo vendor/decNumber/decContext.lo vendor/decNumber/decNumber.lo src/lexer.lo src/parser.lo -lm vendor/oniguruma/src/.libs/libonig.la -lpthread )
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libjq.so.1.0.4T /home/peter/result/lib/libjq.so.1.0.4
libtool: install: (cd /home/peter/result/lib && { ln -s -f libjq.so.1.0.4 libjq.so.1 || { rm -f libjq.so.1 && ln -s libjq.so.1.0.4 libjq.so.1; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /home/peter/result/lib && { ln -s -f libjq.so.1.0.4 libjq.so || { rm -f libjq.so && ln -s libjq.so.1.0.4 libjq.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libjq.lai /home/peter/result/lib/libjq.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libjq.a /home/peter/result/lib/libjq.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /home/peter/result/lib/libjq.a
libtool: install: ranlib /home/peter/result/lib/libjq.a
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /home/peter/result/lib
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Libraries have been installed in:
   /home/peter/result/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
     during execution
   - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
     during linking
   - use the '-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
   - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to '/etc/ld.so.conf'

See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/bin'
  /bin/bash ./libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c jq '/home/peter/result/bin'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/jq /home/peter/result/bin/jq
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/share/doc/jq'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 README.md NEWS.md COPYING AUTHORS '/home/peter/result/share/doc/jq'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/include'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 src/jv.h src/jq.h '/home/peter/result/include'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/share/man/man1'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 jq.1 '/home/peter/result/share/man/man1'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/peter/result/lib/pkgconfig'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libjq.pc '/home/peter/result/lib/pkgconfig'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/peter/jq-1.8.1'
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ASSISTANT
compile-bench> ln -sf /home/peter/result/bin/jq /home/peter/result/jq && ls -l /home/peter/result/jq && /home/peter/result/jq --version
lrwxrwxrwx 1 peter peter 25 Sep 16 21:29 /home/peter/result/jq -> /home/peter/result/bin/jq
jq-1.8.1
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ASSISTANT

Done — I compiled jq from the provided tarball and installed it to /home/peter/result, and created the requested symlink.

What I did
- Extracted jq-1.8.1 from jq.tar.gz
- Ran ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/home/peter/result
- Built with make -j$(nproc) and ran make install
- Created symlink /home/peter/result/jq -> /home/peter/result/bin/jq

Verification
- Symlink:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 peter peter 25 Sep 16 21:29 /home/peter/result/jq -> /home/peter/result/bin/jq
- jq version:
jq-1.8.1

Files installed under /home/peter/result include bin/jq, lib/, include/, share/doc/jq, etc.

If you want, I can:
- Add /home/peter/result to your PATH in a shell profile,
- Produce a tarball of /home/peter/result,
- Or run a quick jq test command.

Task finished successfully, all checks passed!
Checks passed:
jq binary exists
jq help contains expected string
jq works