On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> OK, I found the problem: building from git and doing 'make install' don't 
>> mix.
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/
>> couch-0.11.0b2f476313-git  couch-0.11.0b897427        etap
>> couch-0.11.0b6c1ece91-git  couch-0.11.0bd19680d5-git  ibrowse-1.5.2
>> couch-0.11.0b894112        erlang-oauth               mochiweb-r113
>>
>> You get an effectively random version of couchdb libraries.
>>
>> Sorry for the noise (although it would be nice if couchdb could be a bit
>> smarter with its load path)
>
> True, we should definitely fix the code load path stuff.  It actually used to 
> work fine, just required a lot more autotools-fu than the current setup does. 
>  Perhaps there's a middle ground.

If we're gonna have autotools we should use it to make this stuff
transparent to the user, even if it's a bit of work to maintain.

My opinion is as humble as my autotools-fu...

Chris

>Best,
>
> Adam
>
>



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