Hi Jason,
First of all, good job that you thought to share from your experience
and put everything into a package.
Just out of curiosity, I would like to ask you few questions if I may.
1. I noticed you put all the dependencies in your project (or at least
most of them). Why didn't you use wget (or git or whatever) instead to
bring them locally from the projects web pages?
2. I also noticed you used log files for some processes while for others
there are no such file (e.g., for icu you used config.log, but you
didn't add also the the compilation and installation to that log). Is
there a reason or just the time didn't allow you to add logs for that? I
am sorry if this question is not correct, I see that scripting language
for the first time (I use BASH/AWK/SED and maybe few more for scripting).
3. And one last thing related to the choice of scripting language. Is
there a reason you chose rake or it is just because you feel yourself
"at home" with it?
Don't get me wrong, my intention was never to criticize your work. I
think you did great especially that you shared it with all of us. I am
just curios because I've seen different ways to do the same job and I am
trying to learn which one is the most suitable for such a job (maybe I
will follow it as well because I am doing also some sys admin work).
Cheers,
CGS
On 10/25/2011 05:53 AM, Jason Smith wrote:
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)
