problem installing on Ubuntu 16.04
used the following steps:
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \
build-essential pkg-config erlang erlang-reltool \
libicu-dev libmozjs185-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \
python-sphinx
./configure
make release
error when things fell apart:
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/zzz/couchdb/src/docs'
sphinx-build -b html -a -W -n -A local=1 -D latex_elements.papersize=a4 -d
build/doctree src/ build/html
Running Sphinx v1.3.6
making output directory...
loading pickled environment... not yet created
building [mo]: all of 0 po files
building [html]: all source files
updating environment: 112 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
reading sources... [100%] whatsnew/index
looking for now-outdated files... none found
pickling environment... done
checking consistency... done
preparing documents...
Theme error:
unsupported theme option 'canonical_url' given
Makefile:32: recipe for target 'html' failed
make[1]: *** [html] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/zzz/couchdb/src/docs'
Makefile:377: recipe for target 'src/docs/build' failed
make: *** [src/docs/build] Error 2
Full results of Makefile:
https://gist.github.com/madpink/e8db66cc4357bd76d6426cf12d976742
