Solaris Install

Greenstone 2.70 Install on Solaris (thanks to Courtney Grimland)

Target Platform:


 * SunOS felix 5.9 Generic_118558-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

XML-Parser:

I chose to install XML-Parser myself since I couldn't get it to happen with the gsdl installation.

perl Makefile.PL gmake; gmake test; gmake install
 * Download and unpack XML-Parser-2.34 from CPAN's site
 * My expat was installed from blastwave.org's pkg-get script, so I had to add /opt/csw/lib and /opt/csw/include to the top of Makefile.PL
 * Edit Makefile and Expat/Makefile:
 * change all occurances of cc to /opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin/gcc
 * remove all values for OPTIMIZE (my gcc didn't like those) on lines 334 and 216, respectively

GSDL:


 * Use GNU tar to unpack gsdl-2.70-unix.tar.gz (Sun puts it in /opt/sfw/bin and calls it gtar). Solaris tar did not work.


 * I installed gdbm via the blastwave.org pkg-get script, so I had to edit Unix/Install.sh on line 1612 to add "--with-gdbm=/opt/csw"

export CC=/opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin/gcc export CXX=/opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin/g++ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sfw/gcc-3/lib export MAKE=/opt/sfw/bin/gmake


 * Remove any mention of expat and XML-Parser from src/packages/Makefile.in and src/packages/configure
 * Make sure /usr/ccs/bin is in the PATH because that's where strip and ar live (this is what was causing the end of Install.sh to fail and not ask for an admin password)
 * Finally, cd into Unix/ and run "bash Install.sh". Relying on #!/bin/sh will not work.
 * I installed into /opt but chose the default answer for the rest of the questions

crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /opt/sfw/gcc-3/lib
 * My resulting library binary failed to execute until I added /opt/sfw/gcc-3/lib into the system's ld.config:

Apache:
 * Followed the instructions for modifying apache:
 * Added /opt/gsdl/cgi-bin as a cgi dir
 * Aliased /opt/gsdl to greenstone

After these steps I can access the default gsdl setup via http://myhost.mydomain.edu/greenstone/cgi-bin/library