libuuid needed for compilation

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From jim.zajkowski on April 11, 2008 23:18:52

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Built a minimal CentOS 5 VM, installed gcc, gcc-c++, httpd, httpd-devel, ruby and rubygems.
2. While compiling passenger, linking fails because libuuid not installed.

Solution is to install e2fsprogs-devel. Ideally this should be checked for.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=5

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From honglilai on April 12, 2008 00:52:55

Thanks for the report. We'll take a closer look at this after the weekend.

Cc: honglilai

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From honglilai on April 14, 2008 08:06:46

We tested in CentOS 5 as well, and we didn't come cross this problem.

Could you post the exact compiler error message?

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From jim.zajkowski on April 14, 2008 10:42:56

Sure:

In ext/apache2:

g++ -shared Utils.o Logging.o Configuration.o Hooks.o mod_passenger.o -fPIC -o mod_passenger.so -
lstdc++ -lpthread ../boost/src/libboost_thread.a -laprutil-1 -lldap -llber -ldb-4.3 -lexpat -lapr-1 -luuid -
lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -luuid
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [g++ -shared Utils.o Logging.o Configuratio...]

Our CentOS boxes we deploy for web applications are very minimal VMs under VMware ESX. This is because
there's no good reason to need a huge environment, and we prefer to add on pieces as we need rather than
start with a huge setup and pare down.

To that end, we use a template that is derrived from a kickstart file, which installs only these things and their
dependencies, which means the install is very minimal:

%packages
e2fsprogs
lvm2
kernel
grub
httpd
mod_ssl
php
php-mysql

To that, for a rails server, I enable the CentOS centosplus repository, and then yum install ruby, ruby-irb,
ruby-doc, and ruby-devel. I download and install rubygems by hand.

For Passenger, I additionally yum install httpd-devel and gcc-c++. It will not compile unless I additionally
install e2fsprog-devel, which includes libuuid.

I've attached a typescript so you can see the whole story. The error occurs at line 7062.

Attachment: typescript

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From honglilai on April 14, 2008 11:04:53

Hm I wonder where that -luuid came from, I don't see it on our CentOS VM. Did you
install Apache/APR from yum or from source?

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From jim.zajkowski on April 14, 2008 11:39:40

Yum (yum install httpd-devel installed APR)

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From honglilai on April 16, 2008 15:50:47

Another bug report about this has been received: http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/browse_thread/thread/b63cbd6d3e954f74 The problem is now verified.

The installer should be adapted to check for e2fsprogs-devel on RedHat-derived distros.

Status: Accepted
Labels: Usability

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From honglilai on April 16, 2008 15:51:09

Labels: OpSys-Linux

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From jim.zajkowski on April 16, 2008 17:05:05

Or more generally, check for libuuid and provide help.

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From honglilai on April 22, 2008 10:08:30

According to issue #31 , Fedora 8 has the same problem.

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From honglilai on April 22, 2008 11:08:09

Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-High

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From honglilai on April 24, 2008 05:03:05

This should be fixed in the development version (git repository). Can anyone verify?

Status: Fixed

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From honglilai on April 24, 2008 11:02:28

Labels: Milestone-1.0.2