Build CouchDB is a wrapper or master project which pulls in, from official sources, CouchDB plus all of its dependencies. It is the most straightforward and reliable procedure to build official CouchDB releases from source.
Build CouchDB builds an isolated, independent server. You do not need administrator access to run it. You can run several couches (for example, 0.10, 0.11, 1.0 releases) side-by-side.
Build CouchDB is developed and tested on the following operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny)
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
- Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
- Fedora 13
- Mac OS X
- OpenSUSE 11.3
- Scientific Linux 5.3
- Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
The following systems are planned for support in the near future:
- MS Windows Vista, Windows 7
You need only a few packages provided by the operating system. Copy and paste the commands below.
On Fedora:
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ libtool libcurl-devel \
zlib-devel openssl-devel rubygem-rake
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
The procedure is the same as Fedora, with the following exceptions:
* Do not use yum to install rubygem-rake or libcurl-devel.
* Use [Ruby Version Manager][rvm] to install the latest release of Ruby v 1.8.7. This installed a version of rake, too.
* Download and install the latest release of [cURL][curl] from source.
On Debian, first install sudo and add yourself to /etc/sudoers.
su -
apt-get install sudo
visudo
On Ubuntu and Debian:
sudo apt-get install make gcc zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev rake
On OpenSUSE:
sudo zypper install flex lksctp-tools-devel zip \
rubygem-rake gcc-c++ make m4 zlib-devel \
libopenssl-devel libtool automake libcurl-devel
On Scientific Linux
sudo yum install --enablerepo=dag gcc gcc-c++ libtool zlib-devel openssl-devel \
autoconf213
On Solaris
This build only supports the OpenCSW toolchain. If you do not use OpenCSW, I wish you the best. If you have success, let me know!
The SunStudio tools are required:
sudo pkg install ss-dev
Also, OpenCSW packages are needed.
pkgadd -d http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/pkg_get.pkg # Answer all questions affirmatively
Add CSW to your path. This must always be in the PATH. Every time you log
in, you must set the correct $PATH (or make it automatic in .profile).
PATH=/opt/csw/bin:$PATH
Change the package archive (ibiblio URL is down) by running
vi /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf and setting
url=ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/opencsw/current. Save and exit, then
run:
pkg-get updatecatalog
Finally, install Rake from OpenCSW:
sudo pkg-get install ruby rake # Also perhaps "git"
On Mac OS X, install Xcode.
You will need the Git tool. Check out the code and pull in the third-party submodules.
git clone git://github.com/couchone/build-couchdb
cd build-couchdb
git submodule init
git submodule update
Just run Rake.
rake
CouchDB and all its dependencies will install in the build/. To uninstall,
simply delete that directory.
It's CouchDB! Just type couchdb. (But remember the path)
$ build/bin/couchdb
Apache CouchDB 0.12.0aa63efb6-git (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
[info] [<0.33.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://127.0.0.1:5984/
You can of course call it by absolute path. If your username is amit and you
checked out the code in your home directory, you would run:
/home/amit/build-couchdb/build/bin/couchdb
The env task will output a script which will add this CouchDB build to your
path. Then you can simply type couchdb. To load these settings into your
current shell, run:
eval `rake env --silent`
Build CouchDB supports some fancy tricks by entering cheat codes to the Rake command.
Add a git parameter with the repository URL, then a space, then the branch,
tag, or commit hash. (Remember to quote all of thos so Rake sees the space.)
Want to build GeoCouch? No problem.
rake git="git://github.com/vmx/couchdb geocouch"
Any CouchDB plugin can be loaded remotely from Git, built, and installed into the final CouchDB system.
rake plugin="git://github.com/vmx/couchdb origin/gc-separate"
Multiple plugins can be processed together:
rake plugins="git://github.com/vmx/couchdb origin/gc-separate,git://github.com/somebody/whatever some_tag"
(Both plugin and plugins supports comma-separated lists; use whichever
you remember better.)
Add a couchdb_build parameter to place the final couchdb binaries anywhere.
Note, you still need the main build/ subdirectory because couchdb dependencies
such as Erlang and ICU reside there.
However, couchdb_build makes it trivial to install several couchdb versions
side-by-side.
rake git="git://github.com/vmx/couchdb geocouch" couchdb_build=geocouch
rake git="git://git.apache.org/couchdb.git trunk" couchdb_build=trunk
for tag in 1.0.1 11.0 11.1; do
rake git="git://git.apache.org/couchdb.git tags/$tag" couchdb_build=$tag
done
To get a better idea of exactly what is going on, add a manifest parameter.
rake manifest=1
That will produce additional files in build/manifest which indicate which
package (icu, erlang, spidermonkey, etc) owns which files within build. A
trick I do a lot is cat build/manifest/couchdb | xargs rm to "uninstall" only
couchdb so I can try a rebuild.
I have no idea how manifest interacts with couchdb_build as I have never
used them together.
Build CouchDB strips many modules out of the Erlang platform to reduce disk
usage. (You can see which ones at the top of tasks/erlang.rake.) To indicate
that a package should be kept, set the otp_keep variable to space-separated
library names.
rake otp_keep="compiler eunit"
Or, you can keep them all this way:
rake otp_keep="*"
There is a special shortcut task to build everything CouchDB needs (i.e. its dependencies).
rake couchdb:deps otp_keep="*"
Be careful not to build the couchdb target because after it completes, it will delete Erlang components needed for building (but not running).
Next, there is a simple task which outputs a sh script used to configure any CouchDB checkout.
rake --silent environment:configure
The output will look similar to this:
export PATH="/Users/jhs/src/build-couchdb/build/bin:$PATH"
LDFLAGS='-R/Users/jhs/src/build-couchdb/build/lib -L/Users/jhs/src/build-couchdb/build/lib' CFLAGS='-I/Users/jhs/src/build-couchdb/build/include/js -I/Users/jhs/src/build-couchdb/build/lib/erlang/usr/include' ./configure
In the CouchDB source, paste the above code after running ./bootstrap. Next, you can run make or make dev, or anything.
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