Solaris Install

Greenstone 2.70 Install on Solaris (thanks to Courtney Grimland)

Target Platform:

XML-Parser:

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

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

perl 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

gmake; gmake test; gmake install

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

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

crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /opt/sfw/gcc-3/lib

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