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

[Ben Shum]

Hi Bogna,

Sounds like maybe you're using an older OpenSRF version like 2.4
series.  I think we only just introduced Ubuntu xenial support as of
the OpenSRF 2.5 series.  If you switch over to that version, then you
should find the ubuntu-xenial targets available to use.  Same for
Evergreen, I think Xenial support was only added for 2.12 series and
up.

Also yes, I've been testing on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS (the 64-bit
edition only, not 32-bit).

-- Ben

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Bogna Czyżewska
<bogna.czyzewska at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>>
>



-- 
Benjamin Shum
Evergreener