Hi, Jim. I maintain build-couchdb. Thanks for your success story! I'm a sysadmin, unaccustomed to the nice rarefied atmosphere of programmers. Build CouchDB reflects that; it's one hack after another. Long story short, I'm not sure it would be welcome among those who know what quality is.
On the other hand, build-couchdb could in principle make BigCouch. I've wanted to add BigCouch and Lounge support for a while. I will try to make a BigCouch build option (I think the dependencies are broadly similar); however only as time allows. I'll update the mailing list if I see progress. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jim R. Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Master - just hit up github and started following the readme. Was a bit > concerned that the spidermonkey ppa said "karmic" but shrugged it off and > pressed onwards. > > For the record, I have never been able to successfully build straight couch > either, EXCEPT using build-couchdb[1], which chainbuilds erlang, curl and > spidermonkey from their respective github projects. I was even able to do > this using vanilla Centos (of all things). > > So +1 for a build-bigcouch project if anyone is up for it. A cursory > googling didn't turn one up, but you know what they say about absence of > evidence[2]. :) > > Context: I'm co-authoring a book on databases, and I'd love to talk about > BigCouch in the CouchDB chapter, but I need to be able to run it. > > [1] https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb > [2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/114924461829472558358/posts/fGcYwTuq6q5 > > Thanks for your help, > > -- Jim > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ok then -- 1.1.0 does not support JS 1.8.5 (the 1.1.1 candidate we're >> voting on now does). >> >> Jim, I should have asked in the beginning, but did you try to build >> BigCouch from the master branch or from a tag? >> >> Adam >> >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:55 AM, CGS wrote: >> >> > CouchDB version 1.1.0. >> > >> > On 10/24/2011 04:47 PM, Adam Kocoloski wrote: >> >> Ugh, that's really not good. What version of CouchDB were you using? >> >> >> >> Adam >> >> >> >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:38 AM, CGS wrote: >> >> >> >>> I remember I installed CouchDB using Spidermonkey from 'git clone >> git://github.com/membase/spidermonkey.git' and it worked. I used that >> because the official version 1.8.5 raised similar error in CouchDB >> compilation. Maybe it will help you as well. >> >>> >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> CGS >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On 10/24/2011 04:00 PM, Adam Kocoloski wrote: >> >>>> Hi Jim, thanks for the reminder to update the instructions, 1.8.5 is >> definitely preferred now. >> >>>> >> >>>> Paul wrote most of the current logic to compile couchjs against >> various versions of Spidermonkey in both CouchDB and BigCouch. I don't know >> if he tried the Ubuntu 11.10 package specifically. I suspect when he's up >> later today he'll have some insight on the matter. Regards, >> >>>> >> >>>> Adam >> >>>> >> >>>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Jim R. Wilson wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> My apologies if this is the wrong list for this kind of question. I >> >>>>> couldn't find a BigCouch specific mailing list. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I'm trying to build bigcouch for the first time (on Ubuntu 11.10 >> Oneiric). >> >>>>> The instructions[1] say to use spidermonkey 1.9.2 and include steps >> on how >> >>>>> to get this from ppa. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> When I try to make, the build fails and I get this (followed by a >> bunch of >> >>>>> similar errors): >> >>>>> >> >>>>> c++ -o build/couchjs -L/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-2.0/lib >> >>>>> build/main.o build/http.o build/utf8.o build/util.o -lm -lpthread >> -lcurl >> >>>>> -lnspr4 -lmozjs >> >>>>> build/main.o: In function `seal': >> >>>>> /tmp/bigcouch/couchjs/build/sm180.c:229: undefined reference to >> >>>>> `JS_SealObject' >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I found an email chain[2] suggesting that the problem is that this >> version >> >>>>> of spidermonkey is too new for couchdb. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> However, when I back out spidermonkey 1.9.2 and use the 1.8.5 version >> >>>>> available through the normal apt channels, I get this: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/libmozjs185-1.0.a >> >>>>> (RegexCompiler.o): >> >>>>> In function `JSC::Yarr::compileRegex(JSLinearString >> >>>>> const&, JSC::Yarr::RegexPattern&)': (.text+0x26ca): undefined >> >>>>> reference to `PR_AtomicDecrement' >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> [1] https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch >> >>>>> [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/15583 >> >>>>> >> >>>>> -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw) >> > >> >> > -- Iris Couch
