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

[Bogna Czyżewska]

Hello again Jason,
As you suggested, I replaced my Fedora with Ubuntu 16.04 server version,
but I already encountered a problem - you stressed the importance of using
auto tools, but there is no Xenial version of OpenSRF Makefile.install for
prerequisites and running it as ubuntu-trusty fails immediately. Do you
have any ideas how to overcome this? Is there a Ubuntu Xenial version of
opensrf somewhere or do I have to just install on the run, as the errors
appear?

Best regards,
Bogna

2017-08-31 10:03 GMT+02:00 Bogna Czyżewska <bogna.czyzewska at gmail.com>:

> 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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