Well that's kind of bothersome, in several regards:

1. the official install instructions are wrong

the INSTALL.Unix file specifies libmozjs-dev

as does
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Debian
which also calls for libmozjs2d

neither calls for libmozjs185-dev

2. libmozjs185-dev is not available for Debian stable (Squeeze) - just 
for testing and sid

Seems generally problematic.

Any workarounds you can suggest?



Robert Newson wrote:
> Ah, that would be at least part of the problem, you need 1.8.5.
> libmozjs185-dev, iirc.
>
> B.
>
> On 11 January 2013 17:05, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> Robert Newson wrote:
>>> The install root defaults to /usr/local/ so installing config stuff to
>>> /etc instead of /usr/local/etc would be non-standard (to say the
>>> least).
>>
>> Fair enough.
>>
>>
>>> What version of SpiderMonkey do you have installed?
>>
>> The directions I followed were based on using mozjs, with directions to
>> install libmozjs-dev libmozjs2d via apt, and to configure w/
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-js-lib=/usr/lib
>> --with-js-include=/usr/include/mozjs --enable-init
>>
>> looks like version 1.9.1.16-20 of both packages (the current one from the
>> Debian Squeeze repo.)
>>
>>
>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>> On 11 January 2013 16:43, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> HELP!
>>>>
>>>> Just installed CouchDB 1.2.1 under Debian (Squeeze, amd64), using the
>>>> instructions at
>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Debian
>>>>
>>>> Notice a few things during the install:
>>>> - make test ran all but one test successfully - 220-compaction-daemon.t
>>>> Failed
>>>> - make did NOT install the startup script in /etc/init.d/ - had to copy
>>>> it
>>>> in manually
>>>> - it seems sort of odd for Couch to install config stuff under
>>>> /usr/local/etc, rather than /etc (non-standard to say the least)
>>>> - everything starts up fine
>>>> - verify installation tells me everything is fine
>>>>
>>>> but....
>>>> - when I run the test suites, 39 of 62 fail!
>>>> - I'd love to share the test report, or a link to it (I told Futon to
>>>> share
>>>> it), but...
>>>> --- any suggestions on how either extract the local copy in a form that
>>>> can
>>>> be attached to an email, or,
>>>> --- how to identify the report in the 7000 or so in the shared test
>>>> report
>>>> database?
>>>>
>>>> First question: any simple way to extract the test report as a document I
>>>> can attach to an email
>>>>
>>>> HELP!!!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Miles Fidelman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>>>> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>>


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