SUSE/phoebe

Add detailed installation instructions

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mukul-mehta commented

I tried setting up phoebe on a new Tumbleweed VM today and I had a couple of issues with missing dependencies:

  1. libnl-3.0 was missing
  2. json-c was missing
  3. I had a couple of issues with cmocka. After building from source, I tried building phoebe and ran into linker issues. Installing RPMs from rpmfind fixed the issue. Could somebody confirm if this is the expected way to fulfil the cmocka dependency, I haven't used it before and I was wondering if I was missing something in the process?

It'd be great to have a bit more detailed instructions for building the repository. I could create an INSTALL.md file to add more instructions to build on Tumbleweed to begin with

mvarlese commented

Dear @mukul-mehta ,

Our CI is building the code against all recent Leap versions plus Tumbleweed without issues. What you may have experienced is probably missing devel dependencies on your installation.

Now, considered I understand this could be a situation others could bump into I would welcome a PR for a DEPENDENCIES.md which depicts in details all the dependencies required to successfully build Phoebe.

When doing that, please, make sure you have different sections per latest Leap distros, eg. Leap15.3, Leap15.2, Leap15.1, TW and possibly some other distributions, ie. Ubuntu, etc.

We already explain how to build the code in our README.md so let's not duplicate information across multiple files, please.

HTH,
Marco

mvarlese commented

To facilitate you with that:

TW:
zypper -n in gcc clang make libnetlink-devel libnl3-devel libjson-c-devel meson ethtool python3 python3-devel python3-cffi git valgrind libcmocka-devel

LEAP 15.2:
zypper -n in gcc clang make libnetlink-devel libnl3-devel libjson-c-devel meson ethtool python3 python3-devel python3-cffi git valgrind libcmocka-devel

Thanks.

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mukul-mehta commented

@mvarlese Yes, the issues were due to missing devel dependencies on my installation

Sure, it sounds like a good idea to create a DEPENDENCIES.md file that lists installation instructions for TW, Leap and possibly Debian based distributions. I'll create one and send a PR for it

Thank you for the help

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mvarlese commented

@mukul-mehta thank you. I look forward to your PR.

mvarlese commented

PR pushed to master

mukul-mehta commented

@mvarlese Sorry for the delay in creating a PR, I was under some load from college. Thank you for adding it, I'll add instructions for Debian/Ubuntu 😄