[chef-dev] RE: Re: Re: FreeBSD Omnibus Support

[Adam Jacob < >]

It really does need to install into /opt/chef. The reason here is setting the 
RPATH in the binaries to only link to the libraries we build, rather than the 
operating system. If you aren't building in place, things go very badly for 
you when it comes to link time. You could, in theory, post-process everything 
and override the RPATHs - but it's not clear to me this would work in every 
situation, or even on every platform. Precreating /opt/chef seems like not a 
huge difference. 

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitri Aivaliotis 
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Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:00 AM
To: Scott Sanders
Cc: Bryan McLellan; 

 
Subject: [chef-dev] Re: Re: FreeBSD Omnibus Support

Hi Scott,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Scott Sanders 
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 wrote:
>
> The ruby build step for omnibus requires a custom patch I added to 
> disable libexecinfo, since the autoconf scripts for libexecinfo 
> hardcode the LDFLAGS to point to /usr/local instead of the desired 
> /opt/chef prefix.

I do realize this is kind of an uphill battle, but does Omnibus _have_ to 
install into /opt/chef?  The BSD's don't have /opt.  This is evident in 
tickets like CHEF-3761.


> Follow along on the freebsd branches of the following forks:
>
> https://github.com/jssjr/bento
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-ruby
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-chef
> https://github.com/jssjr/omnibus-software

Thanks for your work on these forks!

I was able to build Omnibus with these caveats, which have only to do with 
Omnibus itself, and not your "freebsd" branches in particular:

1) You have to pre-create the /opt/chef directory as root and then 'chown' to 
your build user (nobody's building as root, right?).  This could be solved by 
having a separate install_dir (place to be installed into during build) and 
prefix_dir (place to be installed into after extracting the archive).


2) omnibus-chef should ship with a safe omnibus.rb, maybe something like the 
following:

cat >omnibus.rb<<EOF
Omnibus.configure do |o|
  o.use_s3_caching = false
  o.cache_dir = "/home/builder/cache"
  o.source_dir = "/home/builder/src"
  o.build_dir = "/home/builder/build"
  o.package_dir = "/home/builder/pkg"
end
EOF

Again to support building as a non-root user.


3) On install, makeself.sh seems to require bash, otherwise you get the 
following error:

eval: ./makeselfinst: not found

and the install will fail.



@Bryan: should I open tickets for these, or are these issues that have been 
seen before, decided upon, and would be closed with "Won't Fix"?


> I'm very excited to see some interest in Chef on FreeBSD!

So am I. :)


- Dimitri