Friday February 06, 2009
Compiling Drizzle on OpenSolaris
Drizzle is certainly in the wind these days. I hear people talking about it almost every day (guess I got geeky friends ;-)), so I decided I should write a small blog on how easy it is to build Drizzle on my pet; OpenSolaris.
To ensure that I don't miss a step in this guide, I decided to install a fresh installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11. With VirtualBox available I didn't have to reinstall one of my computers :-)
A default installation of OpenSolaris does not install everything you need to compile Drizzle (that wouldn't fit on a cd), and most normal users doesn't need development tools. Luckily you don't have to be a senior system administrator to install software on OpenSolaris.
So let's go ahead and install the dependencies we need:
trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install ss-dev trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgnu-gperf trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install SUNWlibevent
The pcre in OpenSolaris is newer than the one you normally find in other distributions, and in the new versions of pcre they have moved the headerfile pcre.h to pcre/pcre.h. Drizzle is not updated to look for the new header, so until that is fixed in Drizzle we can just use the following workaround:
trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec ln -s pcre/pcre.h /usr/include/pcre.h
GNU readline support is mandatory in Drizzle, but the readline package for OpenSolaris is not available in the default repositories. The following commands will add another repository you may install packages from, and install the readline library:
trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending/ pending trond@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install readline5
Drizzle use Google Protocol buffers, and they are not available as an installable software package so we need to download and compile it ourself:
trond@opensolaris:~$ mkdir download && cd download trond@opensolaris:~/download$ wget http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.0.3.tar.gz trond@opensolaris:~/download$ tar xfz protobuf-2.0.3.tar.gz trond@opensolaris:~/download$ cd protobuf-2.0.3 trond@opensolaris:~/download/protobuf-2.0.3$ ./configure --disable-static --prefix=/usr trond@opensolaris:~/download/protobuf-2.0.3$ gmake trond@opensolaris:~/download/protobuf-2.0.3$ pfexec gmake install
Finally we need to download and compile Bazaar to check out the source code (unless you want to download a tar-ball somewhere)
trond@opensolaris:~/download$ wget --no-check-certificate https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.11/1.11/+download/bzr-1.11.tar.gz trond@opensolaris:~/download$ tar xfz bzr-1.11.tar.gz trond@opensolaris:~/download$ cd bzr-1.11 trond@opensolaris:~/download/bzr-1.11$ pfexec python setup.py install
Well, that's it. Now we just need to check out the source gode and compile it:
trond@opensolaris:~$ mkdir source && cd source trond@opensolaris:~/source$ bzr branch lp:drizzle trond@opensolaris:~/source$ cd drizzle trond@opensolaris:~/source/drizzle$ ./config/autorun.sh trond@opensolaris:~/source/drizzle$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/drizzle trond@opensolaris:~/source/drizzle$ gmake all trond@opensolaris:~/source/drizzle$ pfexec gmake install
Posted at 11:17PM Feb 06, 2009 by trond in OpenSolaris | Comments[2]
Sunday January 18, 2009
Trondheim OpenSolaris User Group
Det er med stor glede jeg kan fortelle at vi har startet opp Trondheim OpenSolaris User Group (TrOSUG). Vi (Knut Anders, Jan Ståle og meg selv) har noen tanker om hva vi vil oppnå med brukergruppen, men vi er veldig interessert i å høre hva du er interessert i. (Jan Ståle skrev en intro-mail til gruppen med noen forslag).
Posted at 12:39PM Jan 18, 2009 by trond in OpenSolaris | Comments[0]
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