[Freeipa-users] RHEL 5 Compiling ipa-client (only) from source

[Rob Crittenden]

Marc Richards wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Viji V Nair wrote:
>>   
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>         
>>
>>     I have done a manual compilation of ipa-client on an RHEL 5.2
>>     x86_64 system. After struggling with a lot of errors I finally got
>>     it working by following the below steps. Can anyone suggest is
>>     there anything wrong in my steps? Can I use the same steps to
>>     configure other clients also? 
>>
>> You'd be better off using the attached patch. This will let you do a 
>> build from the top-level and avoid all the version problems. Plus it 
>> can build rpms for you.
>> % make IPA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no local-dist
>>
>> The rpms will be in dist/rpms
>>
>> rob
>>
>>   
> 
> Does this replace everything after step 2 or everything after step 4?

Step 2. The new steps are:

1. Download and un-compress freeipa source, 
http://freeipa.org/downloads/src/freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
% tar -zxvf freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
% cd freeipa-1.2.1

2. Apply the patch
% patch -p1 < /path/to/make.patch

3. Get the prerequisites
yum -y install autoconf automake pkgconfig libtool mozldap-devel 
krb5-devel openldap-devel python-ldap

You'll need to get python-krbV from EPEL 
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)

4. Make rpms
% make IPA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no local-dist

The rpms will be in dist/rpms

> Are there any plans to make client binaries available for download for 
> systems other than Fedora?  It would certainly make things easier for 
> testing against existing systems.

We did our own Fedora builds before we got it accepted and the binaries 
were almost always woefully behind so I doubt it. Someone could probably 
use these instructions to get it built in EPEL though.

rob

> 
>> 1. Download and un-compress freeipa source, 
>> http://freeipa.org/downloads/src/freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
>> # tar -zxvf freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
>> # cd freeipa-1.2.1/ipa-client
>>
>>   
>> 2. I have installed the following prerequisites after seeing the 
>> dependency errors. # yum install autoconf automake pkgconfig.x86_64 
>> libtool.x86_64 mozldap-devel.x86_64 krb5-devel.x86_64 
>> openldap-devel.x86_64 python-ldap.x86_64 3. System was complaining 
>> about there is no version.m4 file, so I did a copy paste of
>> #  cp version.m4.in <http://version.m4.in> version.m4
>>
>>   
>> 4. System was telling I should add the contents of 
>> /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to aclocal.m4, so I did
>> #  cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 >> aclocal.m4
>>
>> 5. After this I have complied the source using the following commands.
>>
>> # ./autogen.sh
>> # make
>> # make install
>>
>>   
>> 6. When I started ipa-client-install, it was showing so many missing 
>> python module errors, so I have done the following steps to get rid of 
>> it. a. Downloaded python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm from 
>> (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Server/x86_64/python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm) 
>> and installed
>> # rpm -ivh python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> b. Manually build the other python modules.
>>
>> # cd freeipa-1.2.1/ipa-python
>> # python setup.py.in <http://setup.py.in> build
>> # python setup.py.in <http://setup.py.in> install
>>
>> c. Copied the required python modules to the actual location
>>
>>   
>> # cp -a /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipaclient 
>> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/
>> d. Finally I got a version error, I have done a hard coding to fix it.
>>
>>   
>> # cp version.py.in <http://version.py.in> 
>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipa/version.py
>> # cat /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipa/version.py
>>
>> #VERSION="__VERSION__"
>> VERSION="1.2.1"
>> #NUM_VERSION=__NUM_VERSION__
>> NUM_VERSION="1.2.1"
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Viji
>>