> On 26 Jan 2016, at 15:23, Maria Andersson <ma...@dualpose.com> wrote: > > (Spoiler: We have no documentation and make install is broken) > > I want to start developing against 2.0 but there is no documentation. > So when I want to try out a new feature, I have to ask questions on > IRC. Nothing wrong with that, but it is a bit slow and not everyone > trying out 2.0 will take the time needed to ask. And it might be > annoying if a lot of people ask the same questions all the time. > > To fix this I have created https://github.com/mar-ia/couchdb-info-dump > to collect everything that is new in 2.0. As the name implies, this is > a dump. No need to worry about grammar and formatting, just throw it in. > Or throw it at me if you prefer. Send it to this thread, do a pull > request or ping me at IRC. Anyway you want. Pointing to the source code > (bulk_get is new see some_file.erl:35-124 for options) is ok too. > So very informal :) > > When everything is in there, then if someone feels like writing > documentation, they know where to look and what questions to ask :) > > I have also updated https://github.com/mar-ia/couchdb-crazy to work > with the current master. This is still the only way that I have manged > to start 2.0. (./dev/run does not count) The result of "make install" > is told bellow in "Trying out the alpha". > > A little list of bugs: > Fauxton: > Url of documents in a view in table view misses _utils/#/ > (http://ip:port/<it should be here>database/database-name/doc-id) > Lists all shards on the backport with the error message > "This database failed to load." > make: > The docs are not built. (The html version was actually built once.) > Git artifacts in the tarball. > The inifiles are installed in 2 places. (lib/couchdb/etc and etc/couchdb) > bin/couchdb: > Can not start if couchdb is installed into a custom directory. > (./configure --prefix="/path/to/dir") > compaction: > Crashes on a corrupt document in a shard instead of fetching a > healthy copy from the cluster and heal the shard. > > Anyway, I have a 3 node cluster running 2.0 that replicates real data > from a 1.6.1. So I am using it daily now \o/ > > // Maria > > *** Trying out the alpha *** > I tried to install and configure a single node following the guide > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtndYr-0KDQTqBSLVdJoR_8C5ObYjT1RBo_Qyh5ykdQ > using apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d.tar.gz (2016-01-12T16:01:33.000Z) > from http://couchdb.apache.org/release-candidate/2.0/ > I ran it on on my laptop with Gentoo 64bit. > > make fails with: > Compiling > /home/user/couchdb/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d/src/couch/priv/couch_js/http.c > In file included > from > /home/user/couchdb/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-a18004d/src/couch/priv/couch_js/http.c:19:0: > priv/couch_js/config.h:8:24: warning: missing terminating " character > #define PACKAGE_STRING "Apache CouchDB fatal: Not a git repository (or any > parent up to mount point /home)
Fixed in these PRs: - https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/142 - https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/385 Thanks! Jan -- > > So I did a git clone and used master instead :) > > The docs are not built so they can not be installed. They had to be > disabled. I tried to install in a directory in my home dir, > with ./configure --prefix="/path/to/dir" but couchdb looks for the > configfiles in the default places, so I could not get it to start. > > So I did a system install instead :D > (I have snapshots so easy to restore.) > > If I run "make install" as root then the permissions are wrong so to > get around that I did it as a user. But first I had to create the > following file and directories and chown them to my user account. > > touch /usr/local/bin/couchdb > mkdir /usr/local/lib/couchdb > mkdir -p /usr/local/libexec/couchdb > mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/couchdb > mkdir -p /usr/local/share/couchdb > mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/apache-couchdb > > Finally installed and starts by running "couchdb" in a terminal \o/ > But nothing works /o\ > After some time of frustration I found the problem. The > inifiles(default.ini and local.ini) are in 2 places and I changed the > wrong ones. The ones that are used are in /usr/local/lib/couchdb/etc/ > and I edited the ones in /usr/local/etc/couchdb/ > > At this point I gave up :$ > Almost got it to work though. > > ***
