Thank you, but the question is not how to run but how to DEBUG (and watch all the values, function calls etc) Just the ability to run CouchDB does not help to understand who is calling whom, when, how, with which arguments...
- Andrey On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Andrey Somov > <trophyb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > in order to understand how CouchDB works I want be able to run the > > application under debugger. Unfortunately it does not look like an easy > > task. > > The information provided on the wiiki ( > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Running%20CouchDB%20in%20Dev%20Mode) may > be > > enough for a > > professional Erlang developer but it is not enough for anyone who learns > > Erlang together with CouchDB. > > I could not find any resource which gives step-by-step instructions on > how > > to organise an effective development environment for CouchDB. > > > > Can someone point me to such a guide/tutorial/manual/screencast ? > > > > Thanks, > > Andrey > > > > Getting deps on Ubuntu (maybe debian?) > > $ sudo apt-get build-deps couchdb > > On OS X with Homebrew you should only need to do something like: > > $ brew install erlang > $ brew install spidermonkey > $ brew install icu4c && brew link icu4c > > Then for CouchDB: > > $ mkdir -p ~/code && cd code > $ svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk couchdb > $ # alternatively: git clone git://git.apache.org/couchdb.git > $ cd couchdb > $ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make dev > $ ./utils/run >
