How to install Membase from source on Debian Lenny 64

Hi there!  Just want to confirm that you've followed the directions here (http://wiki.membase.org/display/membase/Building+on+Linux+from+source) and are still having problems?

Can you provide the specific errors or dependencies that you are missing?

Thanks!

Perry

Yes that is the guide I have been following and everything went smoothly until this message appeared:

checking for libevent directory... configure: error:
You need to upgrade libevent to a version that supports:
  * event_base_loopbreak
  * evutil_socketpair
  * evutil_make_socket_nonblocking

You can get it from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

Therefore I did:

wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz
tar xvfz libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.9-stable
./configure; make; make install

... and I get this message back:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: in `/tmp/libevent-1.4.13-stable':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.

... and if I check that log I see this detail:

configure:2974: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2984: ./a.out
./configure: line 2986: ./a.out: Permission denied

So now I'm a bit stuck :(

Hope you can help.
 

A permission denied there is rather unusual.  What does an "ls -l" say about the a.out that is generated.

Also useful may be a few lines from the file config.log related to this specific test.  It won't be at the very end of config.log, but if you search that file for the "a.out: Permission denied" and post the lines around there, we can probably figure it out.

I tried to find the a.out with sudo find / -name a.out but nothing was returned.

Here is the entire config.log:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = ps42037
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 2.6.33.3-vs2.3.0.36.30.4-swap-nooomloop-nolivelock-oom-jt3
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #13 SMP Wed May 26 15:49:33 PDT 2010

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##

configure:2077: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2145: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2156: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2199: result: yes
configure:2224: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2263: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2276: checking for gawk
configure:2292: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:2303: result: gawk
configure:2314: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2336: result: yes
configure:2575: checking for gcc
configure:2591: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2602: result: gcc
configure:2834: checking for C compiler version
configure:2842: gcc --version >&5
gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2846: $? = 0
configure:2853: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.3.2-1.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --enable-cld --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1)
configure:2857: $? = 0
configure:2864: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2868: $? = 1
configure:2891: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2913: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
configure:2917: $? = 0
configure:2955: result: a.out
configure:2974: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2984: ./a.out
./configure: line 2986: ./a.out: Permission denied
configure:2988: $? = 126
configure:2995: error: in `/tmp/libevent-1.4.13-stable':
configure:2999: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.

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configure: exit 1

Looking at the log is unfortunately not telling me much.  I don't quite know if the build system for libevent is any different, but I wouldn't expect this.

You may want to look for an updated .deb or apt repo with a proper libevent for you.  It's a popular library, so it must be there somewhere.

If you can't, then perhaps try this:

1) Ensure you're not root
2) Re-extract the libevent tarball
3) Run ./configure
4) Run make

If you get this far without errors, you'll want to run make install as root, with "sudo make install".

Sorry for all the troubles.  I am sure I can help you get there but it may require a bit of back and forth.

Hi

It is no trouble for me I'm just glad you will take the time to help me.

I think I have come a little bit further now. Originally, I made an install script with this inside:

cd /tmp
wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
tar xzvf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

... and then I would use sudo scriptname.sh, then everything inside would be executed as root (I think) - so therefore I followed your advice and did every command 1 by 1 and the only command used with sudo is make install and I did also leave out cd /tmp so the install was initiated from my home folder - and actually no error came back to me (as far as I could tell, the /tmp/libevent-1.4.13-stable/config.log is the same as copied here, i.e not been written to) - but sadly the message reappeared again:

checking for libevent directory... configure: error:
You need to upgrade libevent to a version that supports:
  * event_base_loopbreak
  * evutil_socketpair
  * evutil_make_socket_nonblocking

You can get it from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
make[1]: *** [memcached/Makefile] Fejl 1
make[1]: Forlader katalog '/home/membase_1/membase-server-community_1.6.4.1_src'
make: *** [/tmp/membase-build/bin/memcached] Fejl 2

... so again I'm stuck.

Actually, you're probably quite a bit closer.  The only thing missing, now that you have libevent installed, is to show the individual component where to find it.  This is mostly covered on this page:
http://wiki.membase.org/display/membase/Building+on+Linux+from+source#Bu...

Chances are you need to modify this line in the Makefile:

MEMCACHED_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=$(CONFIGURE_FLAGS)

To be more like this:

MEMCACHED_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=$(CONFIGURE_FLAGS) --with-libevent=/usr/local

But first check that libevent ended up in /usr/local.  You can do this by just doing "ls" for "/usr/local/lib/libevent*" or with a find for "libevent.so*".

You're nearly there!

Thank you so much - yes I'm almost there, but the installation did not complete - these are the last few lines with errors (Fejl means error and Forlader means leaves):

libtool: link: g++ -pipe -O0 -DDEBUG -pedantic -Wall -Wundef -Wshadow -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wformat -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wextra -Woverloaded-virtual -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-long-long -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -std=gnu++0x -o vbucketmigrator src/binarymessagepipe.o src/buckets.o src/sockstream.o src/vbucketmigrator.o src/isasl.o src/mutex_pthread.o  -L/tmp/membase-build/lib -levent -lpthread
src/vbucketmigrator.o: In function `check_stdin_thread':
/home/membase_1/membase-server-community_1.6.4.1_src/vbucketmigrator/src/vbucketmigrator.cc:428: undefined reference to `event_base_loopbreak'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [vbucketmigrator] Fejl 1
make[3]: Forlader katalog '/home/membase_1/membase-server-community_1.6.4.1_src/vbucketmigrator'
make[2]: *** [all] Fejl 2
make[2]: Forlader katalog '/home/membase_1/membase-server-community_1.6.4.1_src/vbucketmigrator'
make[1]: *** [vbucketmigrator/vbucketmigrator] Fejl 2
make[1]: Forlader katalog '/home/membase_1/membase-server-community_1.6.4.1_src'
make: *** [/tmp/membase-build/bin/vbucketmigrator] Fejl 2

Is this a software error or is it because I'm missing some other dependencies - to me it seems to be software related.
 

Hi

I actually managed to install, not like suggested in this topic but like described on this page:

http://wiki.membase.org/display/membase/Membase+Installation+Steps#Memba...

So many thanks for all taking their time to help me here.