[one-users] Build system problems searching for xmlrpc library

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi Jose,
	Just to thank your incredible feedback, please let us when the  Debian 
packages are ready, so we can add a link to them in www.opennebula.org

Cheers

Ruben

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:19:34 José Miguel Parrella Romero wrote:
> Javier Fontan escribió, en fecha 30/09/08 11:58:
> > There have been lots of problems with the build system when it tries to
> > figure out the correct parameters to compile/link with xmlrpc. We have
> > been improving the script that searches for that parameters and now it
> > tells more information when it can not compile test programs. There are
> > also log files created in .xmlrpc_test directory that you can use to
> > check what went wrong and eventually sending those files to de mailing
> > list so we can add more recipes to build OpenNebula in your distribution.
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to try OpenNebula recently in Debian Lenny, and had lots of
> problems trying to build it from source. I tried r98 and the 1.0 release
> and had to do some additional steps to get it to build:
>
> a) Install the following Debian packages: ruby libsqlite3-0 sqlite3
> libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-ruby libxmlrpc-c3-dev libxmlrpc-c3 scons
> libwww-dev zlib1g-dev libexpat1-dev libcurl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
>
> Both libwww0 and libwww-dev were not in Lenny ATM I tried, so I had to
> install them from Sid. One of the -dev dependencies became clear when I
> removed the redirection from /dev/null in the compile function at
> get_xmlrpc_config.
>
> b) I added /usr/include to the include path in SConstruct.
>
> c) I added some include statements into some of the source code files,
> for example:
>
>  * include/Attribute.h
>  * src/nebula/Log.cc
>  * src/rm/RequestManager.cc
>  * src/pool/PoolSQL.cc
>
> Among them where vector, string.h and algorithm. My C++ proficiency is
> zero, so this might well be my bad -- yet it worked. I was sloppy at
> trying to look at the exact source of the problems, but I hope this helps.
>
> OTOH, I'm working on a Debian package (for Sid and Lenny) for OpenNebula
> 1.0.
>
> Thanks for your time and great work,
> Jose
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