Hi there,
I’ve built couchdb on Wheezy today and I hit a problem which I found tricky to
understand.
In the docs [1] it makes a list of prerequisites, among which is
sudo apt-get install libmozjs-dev
Unfortunately running ./configure with this installed fails with an unhelpful
message (IIRC,
something like "jsapi.h found but can’t be compiled, please file a JIRA
ticket”).
In fact it turns out that the correct dependency is
libmozjs185-dev
I only found out when reading the output of `./configure —help`, which
mentions:
--enable-js-trunk allow use of SpiderMonkey versions newer than
js185-1.0.0
Note that adding this option with libmozjs-dev installed still gives the same
error message.
I guess it would be useful to update the docs [1] for other who may want to
build it.
Having overcome this, building and installing was a very satisfying
./configure && make && make install
(please reply to me as well as the list I’m not subscribing to the list)
Cheers,
Arnaud Delobelle
[1] http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/install/unix.html
