How to compile ArangoDB 2.8 source in CentOS?

Question

In CentOS I cannot follow the steps given on the ArangoDB official site ( https://docs.arangodb.com/2.8/Installing/Compiling.html ) to compile ArangoDB source code.

Setup cannot be found in the setup steps.

Answer 1

The mentioned setup step tells you to do:

make setup

this requires that your system has latest autoconf / automake available - which you probably don't have in CentOS. Older Autoconf / Automake will fail to generate the configure script. The configure switch --enable-maintainer-mode requires that the system is able to run make setup .

You can now continue in two ways:

• compile and install latest autofoo and restart with make setup
• don't use make setup ; Flush the changes to your git working copy with git reset --hard . Use export CFLAGS='-O0 -ggdb' and export CXXFLAGS='-O0 -ggdb' to make configure generate debug enabled binaries.

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