[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Please test GlusterFS 3.6.0 beta3 on OSX!

[Ryan Nix]

Thanks, Justin.  I'll give this a whirl and report back early next week.

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> On Oct 2, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Justin Clift <justin at gluster.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/10/2014, at 1:03 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:
>> If someone could provide a quick set of instructions on how to download and compile on OS X, I could build the Apple Installer.
> 
> 
> Sure, I can try.  First thought, are you familiar with the MacOS X Homebrew
> package system (http://brew.sh)?
> 
> If so this Homebrew formula (in development!) pulls in the required
> dependencies + installs GlusterFS:
> 
>  https://github.com/justinclift/homebrew/blob/glusterfs360/Library/Formula/glusterfs.rb
> 
> If you're not familiar with Homebrew, then things are a bit more complicated
> to get the environment setup correctly.  The dependencies I know of so far
> are autoconf, automake, libtool, cmockery2, gettext, libxml2, openssl,
> osxfuse, pkgconfig, python, and readline.
> 
> Once those dependencies are installed, compiling GlusterFS can probably be
> done using:
> 
>  ./configure --prefix=[some location] --with-mountutildir=[prefix dir]/sbin \
>    --with-initdir=[prefix dir]/etc \
>    --with-launchddir=[prefix dir]/Library/LaunchDaemons \
>    --disable-systemtap --enable-glupy"
> 
> For example, this is the line that OSX Homebrew uses:
> 
>  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/glusterfs/3.6.0 \
>    --with-mountutildir=/usr/local/Cellar/glusterfs/3.6.0/sbin \
>    --with-initdir=/usr/local/etc \
>    --with-launchddir=/usr/local/Cellar/glusterfs/3.6.0/Library/LaunchDaemons/ \
>    --disable-systemtap --enable-glupy  
> 
> Does this seem workable?
> 
> Regards and best wishes,
> 
> Justin Clift
> 
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