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Miles Fidelman commented on COUCHDB-1640:
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Well folks, I may have been to clever for my own good. Turns out the build
instructions are NOT broken.
1. I just built a new, clean, Debian Squeeze virtual machine, and downloaded
the tarball for CouchDB 1.2.1. Then I followed the instructions from the
INSTALL.Unix file, exactly, using packages from the Debian stable archive to
satisfy all dependencies. Nothing built from source except CouchDB. No flags
in ./configure. Everything worked, including the developer tests.
2. At first, I thought that I'd been waylaid by following the build
instructions on the web site - following links from couch.apache.org ->
quicklinks -> wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ -> wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installation,
which is:
- out of date (talks about releases 1.0 and 1.1, not 1.2 or 1.2.1)
- omits Debian from it's list of build-system-specific instructions, but...
- has a link to
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo?p=couchdb.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL.Unix;hb=master,
which is the latest version of the INSTALL.Unix instructions - WHICH DIFFERS
SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE INSTRUCTIONS PACKAGED WITH 1.2.1, and to confuse matters
more, includes the line: ""For up to date instructions, please see:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Debian"; -- which are the
instructions that I followed yesterday, with the exception of pulling the
absolutely latest release of Erlang, and building all of it's optional
dependencies (some of which are not required to support Couch).
- Today, I followed the instructions exactly (earlier release of Erlang, no
optional dependencies), and everything worked - with one exception - the
instructions say to start Couch with /etc/init.d/couchdb start - but the build
leaves the file in /usr/local/etc/init.d (the instructions in the tarball
address this)
- so, either there was something on my system that made things go South, or
there's an incompatability with the newer Erlang - but it was not a problem
with needing to build spidermonkey - the Debian stable package of libmozjs-dev
is sufficient
So... perhaps the first message, in the immortal words of Emily Litella, is
"never mind." Beyond that, perhaps there is a bit of confusion surrounding two
many versions of the build instructions floating around, and too many paths
through the web site. The instructions in the tarball are correct, and should
be referenced everywhere.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Sigh....
> build instructions broken for Debian
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-1640
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1640
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Miles Fidelman
> Assignee: Dave Cottlehuber
>
> The instructions for building 1.2.1, from source, on Debian Stable (Squeeze)
> are completely broken - both the INSTALL.Unix file in the distribution, and
> the wiki page at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Debian
> For one, the version of spidermonkey (libmozjs) is older than the minimum
> required for Couch 1.2.1.
> For two, even after installing the latest spidermonkey from upstream, I can't
> get more than half the developer tests to complete after an install. I
> expect it has to do with path issues and the proper invocation of ./configure
> - but I can't figure out what the magic incantation is.
> I kind of wonder if anybody has actually tried a full install on Debian
> Stable.
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