[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error in autogen.sh on Fedora

[Bogna Czyżewska]

Hello Blake and Jason!
Blake,
Thank you for your reply. My goal is to install Evergreen on a server
available only within a company network. Truth is, Evergreen seems too big
for handling the +/- 100 books we have, but I wasn't able to find any
smaller solution that could manage collection browsing and basic
circulation.

Jason,
Seems like I have to start from a scratch on a different system... A
difficult decision to make after spending few days of work and getting so
close to the working solution. Feels like a wrong bet in a gamble ;) I
understand you recommend Ubuntu 16.04 over Debian, since there are plans to
move to Ubuntu completely? In your first e-mail you wrote about server
edition - do you mean Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS?

Best regards,
Bogna

2017-08-30 16:44 GMT+02:00 Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com>:

>
> On 08/30/2017 10:30 AM, Bogna Czyżewska wrote:
> > Hello Jason,
> > Thanks for your advice. I actually started with Debian (latest, 9 I
> > think), and switched to Fedora because I encountered many errors during
> > installation and just got angry. That was my first encounter with Debian
> > and I already knew some Fedora stuff, so I figured it'll be easier for
> > me to find the workarounds on it.
>
> We haven't worked out the issues with Debian 9, yet. I have installed
> successfully on Debian 8 and Ubunut 16.04. Ubuntu is used by many sites
> in production. I test extensively with both distros and plan to move our
> production environment from Debian to Ubuntu in October. So, I stand by
> my previous recommendation of Debian 8 or Ubuntu 16.04. :)
>
> >
> > The thing is, I don't think this problem is platform-specific, it seems
> > more like a misconfiguration to me. I tracked the issue down to a piece
> > of code in SettingsClient.pm, lines 67-68. I don't know perl, but
> > OpenSRF docs say that they're supposed to "return the complete set of
> > settings as a JSON document". Adding that to the log entries screaming
> > about problems with JSON parsing (at index 1), my guess is that I messed
> > up some configuration file and now it's unreadable.
>
> No, I don't think you've messed up a configuration file.
>
> We used to support Fedora as an install target, but the person(s)
> maintaining it stopped updating it. We removed the Fedora dependency
> targets in the Makefile.install recently because Evergreen would no
> longer build/work on recent Fedora releases. I believe the issue you've
> encountered is one of those reasons.
>
> I don't recommend using Fedora in general. By their own admission, it is
> an "unstable" distribution and is not meant to be used in production
> environments. It is basically a test bed for RHEL.
>
> >
> > Problem is: what file can that be? Seems to be about
> > router at private.localhost, so maybe something with ejabberd, but ejabberd
> > itself starts without problems and I can't find anything wrong within
> > it's config file (ejabberd.yml)...
>
> The problem is not with ejabberd. It's most likey in the osrf_json
> libraries. My hunch is that they're not linking correctly. This is
> possibly related to an issue we have on Debian 9:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1708048/comments/2
>
> The solution there is for us to start using autotools as intended
> instead of trying to force it to do things it wasn't meant to do.
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bogna
> >
> > 2017-08-30 15:03 GMT+02:00 Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com
> > <mailto:jason at sigio.com>>:
> >
> >     Hello, Bogna!
> >
> >     My recommendation is that you switch to Debian 8 Jessie or Ubuntu
> 16.04
> >     Server Edition for installing Evergreen. These are the Linux
> >     distributions most commonly used by the community. You will likely
> have
> >     more success and get more help with problems.
> >
> >     Good luck,
> >     Jason
> >
> >
>
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