[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Redhat/Centos patch for Makefile.install

[Duimovich, George]

This is very good news and progress update - as an RHEL shop, this is much appreciated!
 
Only I like the fact that we started out on Ubuntu and now don't intend on changing that anytime soon - very pleased our first ubuntu server here. And I'd like to keep to Ubuntu platform going forward if I have the choice, but we may potentially have to switch to RH in the future.
 
When we first selected EG I struggled quite a bit about moving to Ubuntu - not b/c of anything to do with Ubuntu - but everything to do with the culture working in a large government setting where going back in time there was the thinking that senior IT would view running Ubuntu was too "crazy town" for a government server OS. So I just didn't want a fight against unreasoned positions, but fortunately got away with running Ubuntu anyways. And looking back I can now identify lots of agencies, including some seriously secure "gc.ca" infrastrucure running on Ubuntu linux so it can't be "crazy town" anymore just because the library crew is using it.
 
Anyways, the more distros the better, and RH/centos support is going to be appealling to many sites already on that platform.
 
George
George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan 


 
 
 

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From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Lee Dickens
Sent: March 1, 2010 17:46
To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Redhat/Centos patch for Makefile.install


Greetings,

I have been working for awhile to get Evergreen ported to Redhat&Centos.  I have successfully patched OpenSRF to properly install on Redhat.  The patch is attached.  

The only file that was modified was Makefile.install.  This patch installs the rpmforge repository.  In addition to providing updated packages, this repository contains every cpan module precompiled.  This patch also installs libtool, automake, and autoconf from source as the default redhat packages are ancient.  The ejabberd binary installation information was also updated.  

To successfully build in redhat after applying the patch do the following:
make -f src/extras/Makefile.install rhel
cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 >> aclocal.m4 && mkdir m4
./autogen.sh 
export memcached_LIBS=/usr/local/lib/libmemcached
export memcached_CFLAGS=-lmemcached 
./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make && make install

I am just getting my feet wet with this and I'm sure that there are plenty of things that I could be doing better.  Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Lee 

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