Jon Webb

Building ZooKeeper 3.4.5 RPMS on, or for RHEL6 & Centos6

jon.webb — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:11:37 +0000

I’ve been pained by the lack of documentation when it comes to getting the ZooKeeper RPM’s compiled, there’s a number of steps I had to go through to resolve this.

I presume you’ve already got a valid rpm build environment up and running, if not follow this guide

Problem 1: “warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT’ not found in library”

I received the following error:

Buildfile: /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/zookeeper-3.4.5/build.xml

init:

jute:

compile_jute_uptodate:

compile_jute:

compile-native:
   [exec] configure.ac:37: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library
   [exec] configure.ac:37: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_CPPUNIT
   [exec] If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
   [exec] See the Autoconf documentation.
   [exec] configure.ac:57: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
   [exec] autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
BUILD FAILED
/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/zookeeper-3.4.5/build.xml:380: exec returned: 1

Solution

Unfortunately the README_packaging.txt doesn’t list all the dependancies you’ll need, I also needed to ensure that some flavour of Java was installed, as well as the following dependancies:

yum install cppunit cppunit-devel libtool python-setuptools

Problem 2: shell-init: error retrieving current directory

[rpm] + unset DISPLAY
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile
      [rpm] shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
      [rpm] Processing files: zkpython-3.4.5-1.x86_64
      [rpm] error: File not found: /tmp/zkpython_build_root/BUILD/usr
      [rpm]     File not found: /tmp/zkpython_build_root/BUILD/usr
      [rpm] 
      [rpm] 
      [rpm] RPM build errors:

BUILD FAILED
/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/zookeeper-3.4.5/build.xml:955: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/zookeeper-3.4.5/src/contrib/build.xml:75: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/zookeeper-3.4.5/src/contrib/zkpython/build.xml:144: '/usr/bin/rpmbuild' failed with exit code 1

Solution

To resolve this problem I found a great post on the Zookeeper mailing list by Cédric Lejeune which effectively solved the problem, but he provided lots of different patches, I’ve compiled all this together, so after unpacking the zookeeper source, and changing directory into its root you can run the following:

wget http://mirrors.enquira.co.uk/apache/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.5/zookeeper-3.4.5.tar.gz

tar zxvf ./zookeeper-3.4.5.tar.gz
cd ./zookeeper-3.4.5
patch -p1 < curl -s http://bit.ly/11kxKub

now you can build with ant rpm

Problem 3: Zookeeper’s java dependancy has far too many sub dependencies

Now that the rpm was built, and I had deployed it to our yum repositories I started to install it to one of our test systems, I was a little pained to see the following:

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package              Arch     Version                        Repository   Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 zookeeper            x86_64   3.4.5-1                        mangahigh   8.7 M
Installing for dependencies:
 alsa-lib             x86_64   1.0.22-3.el6                   base        370 k
 flac                 x86_64   1.2.1-6.1.el6                  base        243 k
 giflib               x86_64   4.1.6-3.1.el6                  base         37 k
 java-1.6.0-openjdk   x86_64   1:1.6.0.0-1.50.1.11.5.el6_3    updates      25 M
 jline                noarch   0.9.94-0.8.el6                 base         86 k
 jpackage-utils       noarch   1.7.5-3.12.el6                 base         59 k
 libXtst              x86_64   1.0.99.2-3.el6                 base         22 k
 libasyncns           x86_64   0.8-1.1.el6                    base         24 k
 libogg               x86_64   2:1.1.4-2.1.el6                base         21 k
 libsndfile           x86_64   1.0.20-5.el6                   base        233 k
 libvorbis            x86_64   1:1.2.3-4.el6_2.1              base        168 k
 pulseaudio-libs      x86_64   0.9.21-14.el6_3                updates     462 k
 rhino                noarch   1.7-0.7.r2.2.el6               base        778 k
 tzdata-java          noarch   2012i-2.el6                    updates     155 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      15 Package(s)

Solution

For me, there were far too many dependancies that needed to be installed for the use case on the server environment I look after. So I again patched the ./src/packages/rpm/spec/zookeeper.spec file and replaced the java entry in the requires list for our own less dependant version of a java runtime.

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