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Configuring a Linux host for a Hyrax build

Starting with a completely clean CentOS 5.3 64-bit linux machine, here's what I did to so that the shrew project will build. This assumes that the target machine is going to use only 'special' builds where absolutely needed and rely on yum as much as possible.

sudo

Edit /etc/sudoers so that the wheel group is allowed to use sudo.

Then edi /etc/group so that the build account ('opendap') is in the wheel group.

Update the autotools

For this you cannot use rpm. Google autoconf, get the latest, ./configure and make install. You must be root to do 'make install'. Put it in the default location.

Repeat for automake and libtool.

Yum

I used yum to install packages. Because CentOS does not include extra packages (like netcdf), the 'extras' repository has to be added to the base configuration for yum. To do that, find EPEL on the wen and get the information for the EL5 repo. The information to be added to yum should be in a single rpm file; download and install it:

rpm -i epel-release-5.4.noarch.rpm

Can be retrieved from http://mirror.seas.harvard.edu/epel/5/ and then choose i386 or x86_64

Add packages for the hyrax dependencies

The yum commands yum search <string> and sudo yum install <package> are most useful. I installed:

  1. readline-devel (needed by bes)
  2. bzip2-devel (needed by bes)
  3. netcdf-devel
  4. hdf-devel (this is hdf 4)
  5. hdf5-devel
  6. libicu-devel
  7. java-1.6.0-openjdk (this gets CentOS java 1.6) and the -devel package
  8. ant
  9. ant-junit, junit
  10. subversion (not 'svn'; this gets me every time)
  11. graphviz (needed for the doc targets but I've removed these from the build because dot seems to be broken in CentOS for us since it cannot make 'png' files)

Yum might work to update autoconf, automake and libtool, but I did these by hand and installed them in /usr/local/{bin,lib,...}. Google them.

Building

Use svn to checkout shrew.

Edit the first few lines of the nbuild_shrew.sh script. This script runs in the Bourne shell and sets the few environment variables needed for the build.

Build time on a 4-core machine: about 42 minutes, including upload of the build results to the build database. Time to build the daemon target: about 9 minutes. (of course, java people will gloat because the time to build the OLFS is only seconds).

Issues

I did not test the OLFS junit tests using the nbuild_shrew script because of a configuration goof. I think it'll work...