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Sometimes you have to get it done and if you do not have complete access to a system then you must find a way. How to do a sandbox even in the simplest terms can be overlooked but if there is time - it can be done.
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Sandboxed Builds
Life sucks, then you get a helmet.
Denis Leary
If you do not have root and you have the space a sandbox build can
save your life (or career). Now a look at a cases of sandboxing
some software and the issues that can come up.
There is but one piece of software needed to build and run;
subversion. Easy enough?
Unfortunately after running ./configure an alarm
comes up requiring at least apache2 and the latest autoconf.
The problem - no root access and a need to get it done.
No problem.
Prepping the Build
Really there is onlu one thing that needs to be set up, the
prefix directory and a build directory:
export prefix=$HOME/sandbox
export build=$HOME/build
Now, how to get it all done ...
autoconf
Building autoconf is not too hard on most systems since it self
bootstraps:
cd autoconf-X
./configure --prefix=$prefix
make << make install
Now autoconf will install to $HOME/* and automatically create
everything needed.
The Next Step
Now we need to somehow make apache aware of the new stuff lying
in $HOME/sandbox/ and how can it be done?- easy:
export AUTOCONF=$prefix/bin/autoconf
Time to build apache2...
cd httpd-X
./configure --prefix=$prefix/apache2
make << make install
Now the shell can pass along the new AUTOCONF variable.
It is a done deal; apache is in a user directory [1]
Now for the first one...
Now subversion can be compiled right? Well the new
axps needs to be added....
cd subvesion-X
./configure --with-axps2=$prefix/apache2/bin/apxs --prefix=$prefix
make << make install
Well this all seems nice but what about include and libs?
Summary
Building in userland is not too hard, just remember it can
become a dep nightermare - if you go past 8 it is time to
kick a sysadmins ass. For lib linking use this and remember
it *will* include system defaults first then add yours:
CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/inc"
CFLAGS="-I/path/to/inc"
LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/lib"
Make sure to read your docs and source documents.
Footnotes
- The portnumber needs to be changed to greater than 1024
Last modified: May 13 2006 03:11:51
by
jay.fink@gmail.com
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