On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 25 Nov 2009, at 00:40, Noah Slater wrote: > >> >> On 24 Nov 2009, at 23:32, Noah Slater wrote: >> >>> >>> On 24 Nov 2009, at 22:51, Elliot Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> libmozjs is not available in the Ubuntu 9.10 environment, so the CouchDB >>>> package is patched to build and run against xulrunner, where libmozjs.so >>>> is available. I don't know all the details of this, but it's some sort of >>>> complication with the way spidermonkey releases are made (or not made). >>>> You definitely don't want to install libmozjs on Ubuntu 9.10, as you saw >>>> it will try to remove the world. >>>> >>>> I'm know you know this already, but just so the search engines help the >>>> next person out: the easiest way to get the correct build dependencies >>>> installed on Ubuntu (or Debian) is "apt-get build-dep couchdb" and then >>>> you'll have all the right xulrunner-dev stuff installed to be able to >>>> build from source. >>> >>> If I do this, will I need to hack any environment variables or anything >>> else? >> >> Nope, this does not work with a simple "./configure" which is a bit of a >> problem. >> >> What do you suggest Ubuntu users do if they want to build CouchDB from >> source? >> >> Having to hack around with stuff is undesirable. >> >> If there is a patch to configure.ac someone wants to submit, I'd be happy to >> apply. >> >> At the moment, we look in a bunch of standard directories for the >> dependancies, and we could modify this. > > I think additionally looking in the non-standard directory that xulrunner > uses in addition to the existing search path is the most sensible way forward. > These would be /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/ for libmoz.js (--with-js-lib) and > /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/unstable for jsapi.h (--with-js-include). We'd > need to check how much of the version string we can wildcard. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > >
Could we build statically couchjs ? actually building it against xullrunner lib won't be enough since it need to find them when it's loaded aparts doing the hack ubuntu does in their startup script. I could have a look in configure.ac later this morning but wonder what is the best way - benoît
