[ts-gen] Re: The Shim as a data recorder?

[R P Herrold]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, an anonymous poster wrote:

> no worries -- from memory, on centos, running as root:
>
>>         yum -y install mysql-devel mysqlclient10-devel gcc-c++ \
>>                 make
>> 
>> is probably enough to pull in a sufficient minimal build 
>> environment, by the time it is done grabbing the 
>> dependencies
>> 
>> -- I will set up a minimal host, and test on a minimal 
>> installation:
>>         http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/
>> and advise further once I am done with such testing

... I have done so, and taken some hotes, which 
permitted me to complete a draft 'bare metal' installation, 
outline. I am revising it to publishable form as to Centos, 
and it will be posted here into the mailing list.

> I'm using Ubuntu (i.e. a Debian derivative.)  ...

We have a 'Quantian' Debian box around (older and slower 
processor with not as much ram as we usually use for a compile 
machine, so a bit tedious to develop on), which I should be 
able to 'apt-get' to match Ubuntu's bleeding edge.

> I *appear* to have the apt equivalent of those packages, 
> though libmysqlclient15-dev is the only mysql dev package I

libmysqlclient15-dev is probably not strictly required -- I 
did that list above from memory, and after testing, it turns 
out that it is not needed to build the shim.

> could find (other than previous versions) and my gcc package 
> doesn't explicitly state that it's c++ compatible.  Will 
> look into this further and post more queries on forums/IRC.

I see that another developer here has already looked into gcc, 
version 4, issues (which is later than the version centos-4 is 
compiled with), and responded to the main query;  we will 
address those -- in part the later gcc series compiler version 
views some matters of 'proper' C++ syntax perhaps more 
strictly than the earlier version we have been developing on 
to date; I anticipate that centos-5 (which will issue shortly 
after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 does, probably in January) 
will become our new target, as it looks like it will carry a 
native mysql-5, and will be built on gcc-4 as well.

-- Russ Herrold