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#Building Couchdb Below versions of Couchdb are available in respective distributions at the time of this recipe creation:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 has 1.6.0

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Couchdb Version 2.0.0 on IBM z Systems for RHEL 7.1/7.2, SLES 12/12-SP1 and Ubuntu16.04.

General Note:

i) When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

Prerequisites

  • NodeJS v6.9.0(SLES 12/12-SP1, RHEL 7.1/7.2 & Ubuntu 16.04) -- Download NodeJS v6.9.2 binary from NodeJS 6.9.0 and follow the instructions as per given in the link
  • PhantomJS (RHEL 7.1/7.2 & SLES 12-SP1/12-SP2) -- Instructions for building PhantomJS can be found here

Building and Installing Couchdb

  1. First, install the build dependencies

    RHEL 7.1/7.2

     sudo yum install libicu-devel libcurl libcurl-devel git wget zip bzip2 tar nspr nspr-devel autoconf213 fontconfig fontconfig-devel pkgconfig make gtk2-devel libXt-devel libIDL libIDL-devel freetype freetype-devel gstreamer1 gstreamer1-devel dbus dbus-devel dbus-glib dbus-glib-devel libnotify libnotify-devel python perl java-1.7.1-ibm java-1.7.1-ibm-devel xz libtool which texlive.s390x texlive-titlesec.noarch texlive-framed.noarch texlive-threeparttable.noarch texlive-wrapfig.noarch texlive-multirow.noarch texinfo.s390x curl

    SLES 12/12-SP1

     sudo zypper install libicu-devel libcurl4 libcurl-devel git wget mozilla-nspr mozilla-nspr-devel autoconf213 zip fontconfig fontconfig-devel pkg-config libasound2 yasm tar make gtk2-devel libXt-devel libIDL-2-0 libidl-devel libfreetype6 libgstreamer-1_0-0 dbus-1-devel dbus-1-glib-devel libnotify4 libnotify-devel python wget perl perl-base java-1_7_1-ibm java-1_7_1-ibm-devel libopenssl-devel libssh-devel ncurses-devel unixODBC unixODBC-devel libtool pkg-config curl

    Ubuntu 16.04

     sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jdk texlive-full ncurses-base gcc python git wget tar make autoconf2.13 automake autoconf g++ libmozjs185-1.0 libmozjs185-dev  openssl  libicu55  libicu-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev  build-essential unixodbc libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev fop libncurses5-dev unixodbc-dev libssl-dev pkg-config curl phantomjs

  2. Now install gcc-c++

    On RHEL 7.1/7.2:

    sudo yum install gcc-c++

    On SLES 12/12-SP1:

    sudo zypper install gcc-c++

  3. Install SpiderMonkey

    i) Obtain the SpiderMonkey source code

    cd /<source_root>/
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz

    ii) Untar the archive and change working directory:

    tar zxf js185-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd js-1.8.5/js/src

    iii) Effect the following source code changes

    NOTE: The given line numbers account for any previous action on the file.

     Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/jsval.h
 Remove line 309 ( content: 'jsuword        word;' )
 Add a new line after line number 312 and insert the following string:
     jsuword        asWord;
 Add a new line after line number 322 and insert the following string:
     uint32         padding;
 Add a new line after line number 346 and insert the following string:
     uint32         padding;
 Add a new line after line number 355 and insert the following string:
     jsuword        asWord;

Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f2c0dbb88d3)_

    Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/jsvalue.h
    Remove line 294 ( content: 'JS_STATIC_ASSERT(offsetof(jsval_layout, s.payload) == 0);' )
    Replace line 731 ( content: 'return &data.s.payload.word;' )
    with the following content:
        #if JS_BITS_PER_WORD == 32
            return reinterpret_cast<const jsuword *>(&data.s.payload.word);
        #elif JS_BITS_PER_WORD == 64
            return reinterpret_cast<const jsuword *>(&data.asBits);
        #endif
Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=517107&action=diff)_

    Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/Makefile.in
    Change line number 385:
        From: ifeq (,$(filter-out powerpc sparc,$(TARGET_CPU)))
        To:   ifeq (,$(filter arm %86 x86_64,$(TARGET_CPU)))
Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=520157&action=diff)_

iv) Prepare the src code using autoconf

    autoconf-2.13

v) Create a workspace directory and cd into it

    mkdir /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ
    cd /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ

vi) Run the Configure step

    ../configure --prefix=/usr

vii) Go ahead and make SpiderMonkey

    make

viii) If no error is found, install SpiderMonkey:

    sudo make install
  1. Install Erlang

NOTE: Steps 1 & 2 within the following Erlang instruction links should be ignored ( as we have already covered those steps earlier in this recipe ).

  cd /<source_root>/

  wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_17.4.tar.gz
  tar zxvf otp_src_17.4.tar.gz
  cd otp_src_17.4
  export ERL_TOP=`pwd`
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
  sudo make install
  ```

5. Build and install Rebar

   * CouchDB requires `rebar`, build it from source by running:

      cd /<source_root>/
      git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git
      cd /<source_root>/rebar
      ./bootstrap

  * The bootstrap command produces an Erlang escript named rebar. Copy it into a directory in your `$PATH`:

      sudo cp /<source_root>/rebar/rebar /usr/local/bin/
  	
6. Install Autoconf-archive

      cd /<source_root>/
      wget http://infinity.kmeacollege.ac.in/gnu/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2016.03.20.tar.xz
      tar -xvf autoconf-archive-2016.03.20.tar.xz
  	cd autoconf-archive-2016.03.20
  	./configure
  	make
  	sudo make install
  	sudo cp ./m4/* /usr/share/aclocal (Only for RHEL / Ubuntu)
  	

7. Install "prove" module using CPAN (Only for RHEL6.7)
  ````
  /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'prove'
  ````
  	
8. Now set up the CouchDB source tree

      cd /<source_root>/
      git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
      cd /<source_root>/couchdb
      git checkout 2.0.0

9. Configure the source tree (which will fetch more source code from version control), then run make to build CouchDB
   ```
  ./configure -c --disable-docs --disable-fauxton
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
  make		
  ```
10. Installing couchdb

  ``` 
  sudo make install
   ```   
11. Now make and run some sanity tests

   ````
  make check
   ````

 _**Note:** Three test case failures from module `test/couch_compress_tests.erl` at Line 35,49 & 51 are observed and investigation is in progress
_


13. Verify Couchdb by starting the server

  ```
  sudo /<source_root>/couchdb/dev/run &
  ```

  curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/ should display
  ```
  {"couchdb":"Welcome","uuid"="xxx","version":"2.0","vendor":{"name":"The Apache Software Foundation"}}
  ```
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