Right, I've managed to get it up and running, suffice it to say the documentation on the wiki is out of date.
Should I post my process here or is there a better place for me to put it? Martin On 23 Aug 2011, at 16:15, Martin Hewitt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been struggling to bring up CouchDB on a new server running CentOS 6. > > I've installed Spidermonkey from source using the instructions at > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_SpiderMonkey but get the error: > > configure: error: Could not find the js library. > Is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey library installed? > > I have libjs.so in /usr/local/lib64 and have tried > > ./configure --with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include > --with-js-lib=/usr/local/lib64 > > But still get the error. > > The Wiki page mentions the --with-js-include option, but I'm not sure what > it's looking for, so not sure what value to use for this option. > > I can't install js-devel from yum because it requires version 5.8.8 of perl > and I've got 5.10.1 (and have spent 12 hours trying to piece together a 5.8.8 > install to no avail). > > I had no errors when compiling Spidermonkey. > > Any help would be hugely appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Martin
