Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Rewrite of the .sql files of acs-core and some commonly used packages

Gustaf,

I used the link you provided earlier.
I opened Changelog and ratified that I had the release you mentioned.

2011-07-09 Gustaf Neumann mailto:neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
tag nspostgres_v4_r2

I see no reason to the message "Permission denied" since I executed make and everything else as root user

I ran a rollback to a previous stage and started AOLServer installation again, untill the point of upgrading nspostgres with the tarball provided v4_r2.

I unpacked it and ran "make". That worked fine

root@hermes:/usr/local/src/nspostgres# make POSTGRES=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1 ACS=1 INST=/usr/lib/aolserver4 AOLSERVER=/usr/lib/aolserver4
...
ar rv libnspostgres.a
ar: creating libnspostgres.a
ranlib libnspostgres.a
root@hermes:/usr/local/src/nspostgres#

However after "make" I ran "make install" and that returned again the permission error .

root@hermes:/usr/local/src/nspostgres# make install POSTGRES=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1 ACS=1 INST=/usr/lib/aolserver4 AOLSERVER=/usr/lib/aolserver4

HAVE_UINTPTR_T=1 -DHAVE_SIGNED_CHAR=1 -DHAVE_LANGINFO=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1 -DTCL_UNLOAD_DLLS=1 -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DTCL_CFG_OPTIMIZED=1 -DTCL_CFG_DEBUG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_TIMEGM=1 -DHAVE_DRAND48=1 -DHAVE_RANDOM=1 -DHAVE_POLL=1 -DHAVE_GETADDRINFO=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -nostartfiles -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/aolserver4/lib -o nspostgres.so nspostgres.o -L/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib -lpq -lnsdb -L. -lnspostgres -L/usr/lib/aolserver4/lib -lnsd -lnsthread -L/usr/lib -ltcl8.5 -ldl -lpthread -lieee -lm -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lgcc_s -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/aolserver4/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/aolserver4/lib
/usr/lib/aolserver4 -d /usr/lib/aolserver4/bin -e nspostgres.so
make: execvp: /usr/lib/aolserver4: Permission denied
make: *** [install-mod] Error 127
root@hermes:/usr/local/src/nspostgres#

Regardless the error message, the .so files were created.
I copied them over /usr/lib/aolserver4/bin and /lib

Then I tried to install OACS again and got the same syntax error.

27/May/2013:19:52:19][26107.18446744072681907968-default:2-] Error: Error sourcing /var/www/planetnatopia/packages/acs-bootstrap-installer/installer/install.tcl:
psql:postgresql.sql:44: ERROR: syntax error at or near "\"
LINE 17: v_inc := \-1;
^
QUERY:

I believe I will need to install all aolserver 4.5 packages from source.

Since the beginning I installed them using apt-get, with some arrangements from previous .deb packages, as I explained on aolserver mailing list

i.e.
apt-get install aolserver4-dev aolserver4-core aolserver4-dev aolserver4-daemon aolserver4-doc aolserver4-nsopenssl aolserver4-nspostgres aolserver4-nssha1 aolserver4-nsxml aolserver4-xotcl

Best wishes,

Have your read the large warning about INST in the README file of newer version of nspostgres:

=======================
NOTE NOTE NOTE!! As of aolserver-4.5.x, the variable INST is used for
a different purpose than it used to be, so DO NOT set it to the installation dir!!
=======================

Probably, when you remove INST from your "install" line, the error will go away.

anyhow. can it be, that you are *not* using the head version of openacs for installation?

Yeah, I wrote that :)
Gustaf,

You're right on both statements:

1. I removed INST. make and make install ran fine.

2. The version I downloaded is broken (from OACS main page). I downloaded oacs5.7 from CVS Head then the process installation worked fine.

https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=3646409

We need to remove this link from the main page of OACS website ASAP.

Iuri, these are good news.

openacs 5.7 does NOT work with pg 9+ (see e.g. http://www.openacs.org/xowiki/openacs-compatibility-matrix); also http://www.openacs.org/xowiki/Postgres_9 mentions explicitly openacs 5.8.

We should bundle a release of openacs 5.8 rather soon now to avoid more confusions.

all the best
-gustaf neumann