openSUSE: Compilation problem (CouchDB 3.0.0, SpiderMonkey 60)

[rolfn]

I tried to compile CouchDB 3.0.0 for openSUSE 15.1 in the following way:

sudo zypper install help2man libcurl-devel
make download-couch openSUSE \
URL=http://mirror.23media.de/apache/couchdb/source/3.0.0/apache-couchdb-3.0.0.tar.gz

This ends with a successful creation of the rpm file. Note: make openSUSE is the same as make centos7. In a next step I tried to use "SpiderMonkey 60":

sudo zypper install mozjs60 mozjs60-devel
make centos8

This ends with the following error:

/usr/include/mozjs-60/js-config.h:24:4: error: #error "SpiderMonkey was configured with --enable-debug, so DEBUG must be defined when including this header"
 #  error "SpiderMonkey was configured with --enable-debug, so DEBUG must be defined when including this header"
    ^~~~~
ERROR: compile failed while processing /home/nieprasc/myapps/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.0.0/src/couch: rebar_abort
make[1]: *** [Makefile:125: couch] Error 1

What is the problem here? What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

[wohali]

Looks like this is an upstream bug in openSUSE that's previously been fixed.

Inspecting the changelog inside of http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/Factory/openSUSE_Factory/src/mozjs60-60.9.0-38.1.src.rpm shows me:

* Wed May 29 2019 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- No longer pass --enable-debug to configure. It is not needed for
  our endusers, and will only slow down the engine. Nor have we
  built it with debug in the past.

This appears to have been made 2 changes prior to updating the openSUSE rpm to mozjs 60.9.0. It also brings that RPM in line what what I see from CentOS:

https://git.centos.org/rpms/mozjs60/blob/c8/f/SPECS/mozjs60.spec

and what I see in Debian:

https://sources.debian.org/src/mozjs60/60.8.0-2/debian/rules/

neither of which use the --enable-debug flag.

Can you check which version you've downloaded locally? If it's prior to the fix, I don't see any workaround possible, and suggest you stick with SM 1.8.5 until you can update to a version of openSUSE that uses the newer SM60 package.

[rolfn]

I use openSUSE’s regular release (15.1). The containing mozjs60 has the version 60.4.0 and is compiled with --enable-debug. I will use SM 1.8.5 until the fixed version is available.

Many thanks for your good analysis.