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Miles Fidelman commented on COUCHDB-1640:
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The Debian package for stable (squeeze) is ancient - it installs CouchDB 0.11.
I've installed libmozjs185-dev, from source, on stable, and then tried building
the latest CouchDB from source. It builds, passes all but one make check
(#200), installs and runs, but.... it fails 32 of the developer tests. I
expect it has to do with one of the magic configuration strings for ./configure
- probably a bunch of the tests are not finding something, but.... kinda hard
to tell.
> 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
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> 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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