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Aug 11th, 2006
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Aaron Racicot
Z-Pulley Inc.
reprojected.com/org/net
Host - Dreamhost
Shared Hosting environment (no root access)
Debian based

20 GIG Storage
1 Terabyte/month Transfer
The idea is to create a local build area that is completly independent and will not require root access. All applications are installed into that local area through the use of the --prefix option at config time.
The use of RPATH in many instances gets around the need to modify the LD_CONFIG_PATH (or /etc/ld.so.config and /sbin/ldconfig)

Start by creating a build environment under the home directory of the shared host:


`/home/racicot/usr
/home/racicot/usr/local
/home/racicot/etc
/home/racicot/etc/httpd
/home/racicot/var
/home/racicot/var/www
/home/racicot/var/www/cgi-bin `

Next we start marching through all the installs...

1) Ming (optional)

`cd ming-0.3.0
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install
`
**Don't forget to add 'extension=php_ming.so' to php.ini!

2) Pdflib (optional)

`cd PDFlib-Lite-6.0.3
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

3) Proj.4

`cd proj-4.4.9
cd nad/
cp ../../proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip .
unzip proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip
cd ..
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

4) GDAL

`cd gdal-1.3.1
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-static-proj4=/home/racicot/usr/local/lib --with-local=/home/racicot/usr/local
make ogr-all
make install`

5) GEOS

`cd geos-2.2.1
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

6) READLINE

`cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

7) POSTGRESQL

NOTE the LDFLAGS here... this is to support GEOS for postGIS
`setenv LDFLAGS -lstdc++
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-libs=/home/racicot/usr/local/lib --with-includes=/home/racicot/usr/local/include`

############### Had to change the sockets file location to keep the
############### reaper from getting the file in /tmp
edit ~/usr/local/src/postgresql/postgresql-8.1.4/src/include/pg_config_manual.h
< #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/tmp"
> #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/home/racicot/tmp"
rebuild....
###############

`make
make install`

Run make install in the ./doc directory to install the documentation

`../usr/local/bin/initdb -D /home/racicot/postgresql_data
../usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /home/racicot/postgresql_data -l logfile start`


Finally add the following to the .cshrc profile file to make paths available:
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/home/racicot/usr/local/bin

Add the postgres user
useradd postgres
passwd xxxxxx
Execute psql -l to verify the database is running.
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
-----------+---------+----------
postgres | postgis | UTF8
template0 | postgis | UTF8
template1 | postgis | UTF8
(3 rows)


Create a new postgres user:

`[postgis@localhost pgsql]$ createuser aaronr
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
CREATE ROLE`

8) POSTGIS

Just make sure that the Postgresql is configured with the LDFLAGS variable set
and that the GEOS software is downloaded and installed from Refractions.

`./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-pgsql=/home/racicot/usr/local/bin/pg_config --with-proj=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-geos=/home/racicot/usr/local/bin/geos-config
make
make install`

Now we can create the database:
`createdb -O aaronr test_db
createlang -U aaronr plpgsql test_db
psql -f /home/racicot/usr/local/share/lwpostgis.sql -d test_db`

9) PHP

`./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-tiff-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib --with-freetype-dir --without-ttf --with-mysql --with-regex=system --enable-dbase --enable-dbx --enable-versioning --with-config-file-path=/home/racicot/etc/httpd/`

`make
make install`

`strip sapi/cgi/php
cp sapi/cgi/php /home/racicot/var/www/cgi-bin/php.cgi
cp php.ini-dist /home/racicot/etc/httpd/php.ini`

Made the following mod to /etc/httpd/php.ini:
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
;extension_dir = "./"
extension_dir = "/home/racicot/etc/httpd/php_mods"

mkdir /home/racicot/etc/httpd/php_mods

Added the following to the .htaccess

AddType application/x-httpd-php-cgi .php .phtml
Action application/x-httpd-php-cgi /cgi-bin/php.cgi

10) MAPSERVER

Had to change the following to get php_mapscript to statically get the library
path for gdal. This is done in the makefile in the php directory:

RUNPATHS= -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/gis/proj4/proj-4.4.9/src/.libs -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/gis/mapserver/mapserver-4.8.3

To:

RUNPATHS= -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/src/proj4/proj-4.4.9/src/.libs -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/src/mapserver/mapserver-4.8.3

Now configure and build...

`./configure --with-jpeg --with-gd --with-freetype --with-zlib --with-png --with-pdf=/home/racicot/usr/local --without-tiff --with-proj=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-threads --with-ogr=/home/racicot/usr/local/bin --with-gdal=/home/racicot/usr/local/bin/gdal-config --enable-debug --with-php=/home/racicot/usr/local/src/php/php-4.4.2 --enable-runpath`

`make
cp legend mapserv scalebar /var/www/cgi-bin/
cp mapscript/php3/php_mapscript.so /etc/httpd/php_mods/`

11) libtiff

`wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`


12) TCL/TK
`wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.13-src.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tk8.4.13-src.tar.gz`

`cd ~/usr/local/src/tcltk/tcl8.4.13/unix
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

`cd ~/usr/local/src/tcltk/tk8.4.13/unix
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-tcl=/home/racicot/usr/local/src/tcltk/tcl8.4.13/unix
make
make install`

13) FFTW

`wget http://www.fftw.org/fftw-3.1.1.tar.gz`

`cd fftw-3.1.1
./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local
make
make install`

14) GRASS

`./configure --prefix=/home/racicot/usr/local --with-gdal=/home/racicot/usr/local/bin/gdal-config --with-postgres-includes=/home/racicot/usr/local/include --with-postgres-libs=/home/racicot/usr/local/lib --with-includes=/home/racicot/usr/local/include --with-libs=/home/racicot/usr/local/lib --with-proj-share=/home/racicot/usr/local/share/proj --without-opengl`

I then made a change to the makefile to statically add the lib path
so I would not have to update LD_LIBRARY_PATH

emacs include/Make/Platform.make

Added "-Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/lib" to both the CC and LD SEARCH_FLAGS

CC_SEARCH_FLAGS = -Wl,-rpath-link,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR} -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/lib
LD_SEARCH_FLAGS = -Wl,-rpath-link,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR} -Wl,-rpath,/home/racicot/usr/local/lib

`make
make install`

15) GMT

Make a GMTParams.txt file
run install_gmt shell script

Needed to re-run:
`make install install-suppl clean
make install-data
make install-man
make install-www`

Make sure to point all of the GMT directories in the param file to the local user area...

Well... that is it. Mapserver, GMT, and command line GRASS all installed and working!
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