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.

• 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