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#Building Couchdb Below versions of Couchdb are available in respective distributions at the time of this recipe creation:

Ubuntu 16.04 has 1.6.0

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Couchdb Version 1.6.1 on Linux on the IBM z Systems for RHEL 6/7, SLES 11/12 and Ubuntu 16.04.

General Note:

i) When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

Building and Installing Couchdb

First, install the build-time dependencies:

On SLES 11:

    sudo zypper install libicu-devel libcurl-devel git wget autoconf213 zip fontconfig-devel pkg-config yasm tar make gtk2-devel libidl-devel  dbus-1-devel dbus-1-glib-devel libnotify-devel java-1_7_0-ibm  libopenssl-devel libssh-devel ncurses-devel unixODBC unixODBC-devel libtool pkg-config

On SLES 12:

  sudo zypper install libicu-devel libcurl4 libcurl-devel git wget mozilla-nspr mozilla-nspr-devel autoconf213 zip fontconfig fontconfig-devel pkg-config libasound2 yasm tar make gtk2-devel libXt-devel libIDL-2-0 libidl-devel libfreetype6 libgstreamer-1_0-0 dbus-1-devel dbus-1-glib-devel libnotify4 libnotify-devel python wget perl perl-base java-1_7_1-ibm java-1_7_1-ibm-devel libopenssl-devel libssh-devel ncurses-devel unixODBC unixODBC-devel libtool pkg-config

On RHEL 6.6:

  sudo yum install libicu-devel libcurl libcurl-devel git wget zip bzip2 tar nspr nspr-devel autoconf213 fontconfig fontconfig-devel pkgconfig make gtk2-devel libXt-devel libIDL libIDL-devel freetype freetype-devel gstreamer gstreamer-devel dbus dbus-devel dbus-glib dbus-glib-devel libnotify libnotify-devel python perl java-1.7.1-ibm java-1.7.1-ibm-devel xz libtool perl-CPAN

  
 On RHEL 7.1:
  ```
  sudo yum install libicu-devel libcurl libcurl-devel git wget zip bzip2 tar nspr nspr-devel autoconf213 fontconfig fontconfig-devel pkgconfig make gtk2-devel libXt-devel libIDL libIDL-devel freetype freetype-devel gstreamer1 gstreamer1-devel dbus dbus-devel dbus-glib dbus-glib-devel libnotify libnotify-devel python perl java-1.7.1-ibm java-1.7.1-ibm-devel xz libtool which texlive.s390x texlive-titlesec.noarch texlive-framed.noarch texlive-threeparttable.noarch texlive-wrapfig.noarch texlive-multirow.noarch texinfo.s390x

Now install gcc-c++ and dependencies(latex) for doc generation

On SLES 11:

    sudo zypper install gcc47-c++
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.7 /usr/bin/gcc
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.7 /usr/bin/cc
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.7 /usr/bin/g++
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.7 /usr/bin/c++

On SLES 12.0:

    sudo zypper install gcc-c++

On RHEL 6.6 & 7.1:

   sudo yum install gcc-c++

Installing SpiderMonkey

i) Obtain the SpiderMonkey source code

 cd /<source_root>/
 wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz

ii). Untar the archive and change working directory:

 tar zxf js185-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd js-1.8.5/js/src

iii). Effect the following source code changes

NOTE: The given line numbers account for any previous action on the file.

 Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/jsval.h
 Remove line 309 ( content: 'jsuword        word;' )
 Add a new line after line number 312 and insert the following string:
     jsuword        asWord;
 Add a new line after line number 322 and insert the following string:
     uint32         padding;
 Add a new line after line number 346 and insert the following string:
     uint32         padding;
 Add a new line after line number 355 and insert the following string:
     jsuword        asWord;

Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f2c0dbb88d3)_

    Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/jsvalue.h
    Remove line 294 ( content: 'JS_STATIC_ASSERT(offsetof(jsval_layout, s.payload) == 0);' )
    Replace line 731 ( content: 'return &data.s.payload.word;' )
    with the following content:
        #if JS_BITS_PER_WORD == 32
            return reinterpret_cast<const jsuword *>(&data.s.payload.word);
        #elif JS_BITS_PER_WORD == 64
            return reinterpret_cast<const jsuword *>(&data.asBits);
        #endif
Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=517107&action=diff)_

    Edit file /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/Makefile.in
    Change line number 385:
        From: ifeq (,$(filter-out powerpc sparc,$(TARGET_CPU)))
        To:   ifeq (,$(filter arm %86 x86_64,$(TARGET_CPU)))
Save the file.

_For more info on the above see the [bugzilla diff](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=520157&action=diff)_

iv) Prepare the src code using autoconf

    autoconf-2.13

v) Create a workspace directory and cd into it

    mkdir /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ
    cd /<source_root>/js-1.8.5/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ

vi) Run the Configure step

    ./configure --prefix=/usr

vii) Go ahead and make SpiderMonkey

    make

viii) If no error is found, install SpiderMonkey:

    sudo make install

Install Erlang:

NOTE: Steps 1 & 2 within the following Erlang instruction links should be ignored ( as we have already covered those steps earlier in this recipe ).

  cd /<source_root>/

For SLES 11.3 & 12.0, build & install Erlang according to the instructions in Building Erlang on SLES12.
For RHEL 6.6 & 7.1, build & install Erlang according to the instructions in Building Erlang on RHEL7.

Install Nodejs

    cd /<source_root>/
    git clone https://github.com/andrewlow/node.git 
    cd /<source_root>/node 
    git checkout v0.10.38-release-ppc
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

Install Rebar

i) CouchDB requires rebar Build it from source by running:
```
 cd /<source_root>/
 git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git
 cd /<source_root>/rebar
 ./bootstrap
```
ii) The bootstrap command produces an Erlang escript named rebar. Copy it into a directory in your $PATH:
```
 sudo cp /<source_root>/rebar/rebar /usr/local/bin/
```

Install Autoconf-archive

 wget http://infinity.kmeacollege.ac.in/gnu/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2016.03.20.tar.xz
 tar -xvf autoconf-archive-2016.03.20.tar.xz
 cd autoconf-archive-2016.03.20
 ./configure
 make
 sudo make install
 sudo cp ./m4/* /usr/share/aclocal (Only for RHEL)

Install "prove" module using CPAN (Only for RHEL6)
```
 /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'prove'
```

Now set up the CouchDB source tree:

 cd /<source_root>/
 git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
 cd /<source_root>/couchdb
 git checkout 1.6.1

Configure the source tree (which will fetch more source code from version control), then run make to build CouchDB:
```
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/opt/couchdb
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
make		
```
Installing couchdb
```
 sudo make install
```
Now make and run some sanity tests.
```
make check
```
Generate an installable release with an embedded Erlang run-time system
```
make dist
```

Verify Couchdb by starting the server:

 cd /opt/couchdb/bin
 sudo ./couchdb &

curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/ should display

{"couchdb":"Welcome","uuid"="xxx","version":"1.6.1","vendor":{"name":"The Apache Software Foundation"}}

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