I got this going with help from Alexander on IRC. Here is a Pull Request we can discuss: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/302
Thanks! Jan -- > On 11 Feb 2015, at 09:02, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Robert, > > I know about `make dist`. It creates a binary distribution, not a source one, > hence my efforts :) > > It's bin/couchdb script is what I'm trying to learn from how to start CouchDB > in its 2.x form, but so far no luck. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > >> On 10.02.2015, at 23:49, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> After running `make dist` you will get a couchdb folder in `/rel/`. It >> contains an Erlang release, if I ran `make dist` on the project root I >> can boot couch with: >> >> `./rel/couchdb/bin/couchdb` >> >> I hope that helps, >> Robert >> >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I’m looking at how we want to produce a tarball for the upcoming 2.0 >>> release. >>> >>> Since we ditched most of our Autotools infrastructure, we are at step #1 >>> for building a release tarball. >>> >>> I have a bit of a Makefile target that copies everything from a git >>> checkout into a sub-directory: >>> >>> # creates a source tarball >>> release: >>> # make release dir >>> rm -rf release >>> mkdir release >>> >>> # copy sources over >>> cp -r src release/ >>> >>> # copy utility files over >>> cp -r rel/overlay/etc rel/overlay/bin support release/ >>> cp rebar.config.script config.erl install.mk release/ >>> >>> >>> To test if it works, I want to start CouchDB, but I can’t for the life of >>> me find the right incarnation to get this started. Both looking at dev/run >>> and bin/couchdb for clues didn’t quite help (and note, I wrote the original >>> `bin/couchdb`). >>> >>> Does anyone have any pointers? Am I missing any resources in that `release` >>> directory to make it work? >>> >>> The idea is to have a tarball that is similar for what we have in 1.x, >>> something that has its own Makefile to build and install a CouchDB >>> installation from source. This is without thinking about convenience binary >>> builds that we could also offer (like the Mac OS X one today). >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> Jan >>> -- >>>
