INSTALLING DEPENDENT PACKAGES

Procedures for installing: Berkeley-Db, MySql, Xerces, Antlr, CCache, Libtool and Automake.

These are notes from installing particular versions of each package at Brown. You'll have to make the appropriate substitutions for your site and different package versions.

Berkeley-Db

Download db-4.2.52.NC.tar.gz from www.sleepycat.com and unroll it in a temporary directory.

> mkdir  /pro/borealis/software/bdb
db-4.2.52.NC/build_unix> ../dist/configure  --enable-cxx   \
                                            --prefix=/pro/borealis/software/bdb
db-4.2.52.NC/build_unix> make
db-4.2.52.NC/build_unix> make  install

If you configure Berkeley-Db without the --enable-cxx flag the lib_cxx.a will not be created. When you build Borealis you'll get the message "cannot find -ldb_cxx".

MySql

Download the source distribution, mysql-4.1.6-gamma.tar.gz, from dev.mysql.com/downloads/ and unroll it in a temporary directory.

> mkdir  /pro/borealis/software/mysql
mysql-4.1.6-gamma> configure  --prefix=/pro/borealis/software/mysql
mysql-4.1.6-gamma> make
mysql-4.1.6-gamma> make  install

Xerces

Download the binary distribution, xerces-c_2_6_0-redhat_80-gcc_32.tar.gz from xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi and unroll it in a temporary directory.

> mv xerces-c_2_6_0-redhat_80-gcc_32 /pro/borealis/software/xerces

Antlr

Download antlr-2.7.4.tar.gz from www.antlr.org and unroll it in a temporary directory.

#  First on PATH to override older Brown Debian version.
> setenv  PATH  /pro/java/linux/jdk1.4/bin:${PATH}

# Make sure the directory containing configure is in the CLASSPATH.
> setenv  CLASSPATH                                    \
   /pro/java/linux/jdk1.4/lib/jre/javaws/:<temporary>/antlr/antlr-2.7.4/

> mkdir  /pro/borealis/software/antlr
antlr-2.7.4> configure  --prefix=/pro/borealis/software/antlr
antlr-2.7.4>make
antlr-2.7.4>make  install

# The borealis/src/configure.ac file accesses the jar file here:
/pro/borealis/software/antlr> cp  share/antlr-2.7.3/antlr.jar  lib/antlr.jar

CCache

Download ccache-2.4.tar.gz from ccache.samba.org/ftp/ccache/ and unroll it in a temporary directory.

ccache-2.4> configure --prefix=/pro/borealis/software/ccache
ccache-2.4> make
ccache-2.4> make install

At Brown /usr/bin/ccache should work.

Libtool, Autoconf and Automake

Download libtool-1.5.10.tar.gz from www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html and unroll it in a temporary directory. This procedure will install bin/libtool and bin/libtoolize.

libtool-1.5.10> configure --prefix=/pro/borealis/software
libtool-1.5.10> make
libtool-1.5.10> make  install

Download autoconf-2.59.tar.gz from www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ and unroll it in a temporary directory. This procedure will install bin/autoconf, bin/autoheader, bin/autom4te, bin/autoreconf, bin/autoscan, bin/autoupdate and bin/ifnames.

autoconf-2.59> configure --prefix=/pro/borealis/software
autoconf-2.59> make
autoconf-2.59> make  install

Download automake-1.9.2.tar.gz from www.gnu.org/software/automake/ and unroll it in a temporary directory. This procedure will install bin/aclocal and bin/automake.

automake-1.9.2> configure --prefix=/pro/borealis/software
automake-1.9.2> make
automake-1.9.2> make  install

Automake, Autoconf and Libtool need to be installed in the same directory.

<<< begin web geek >>>
This is certainly because AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is not defined in aclocal.m4.
This is probably because aclocal does not see libtool.m4 in its search path.
This is might be because Automake and Libtool are installed with different
--prefix; for instance Libtool in /usr and Automake in /usr/local.

If that is your case, you can add /usr/share/aclocal to the search path of the new aclocal using:

> echo /usr/share/aclocal > /usr/local/share/aclocal/dirlist

See the Automake manual's "Macro search path" section for more discussion about dirlist.
<<< end web geek >>>

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