[atlas-sw-probes] Compiling instructions for building from source

On 12/21/22 15:30, Michel Stam wrote:
> Hi Georg,
> 
> Thank you for reaching out!
> 
> We’ve been discussing providing signed RPMs for more recent Linux 
> versions and would love to have some further discussion on other 
> distributions.
> 
> Currently the instructions for building the software probe are for RPM 
> and DEB only, see here: 
> https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe/blob/master/INSTALL.rst <https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe/blob/master/INSTALL.rst>. However, we’re refactoring and will soon provide autoconf support for building the package. That should make packaging a lot easier. I expect it to be available with the next release.
> 
> The hardcoded lib event is something that came with the projects’ 
> history. A partial support was added for (I believe) HTTP or SSL or a 
> combination of both, but the implementation was not full so it was never 
> sent upstream. My personal idea would be to first statically link in the 
> lib event rather than as a .so file, that way the dependency is compile 
> time only. Secondly, refactoring it out may or may not be feasible, that 
> would have to be looked at.
> 
To add these to Fedora and CentOS repos, dynamically linked unbundled 
libraries are preferred.

Libevent is available:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/libevent/libevent
There seems to be http and ssl support:
https://github.com/libevent/libevent

Libbb and Libpwdgrp are not, but busybox is available, so it would be 
possible to build shared libbb and libpwdgrp:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/busybox

Would there be interest in trying to support the standard versions of 
these libraries as well?
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michel
> 
>> On 18 Dec 2022, at 21:44, Georg <g.schlisio at dukun.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'd like to build the sofware probe from source for Archlinux, and 
>> would like to provide the resulting recipe (a so-called PKGBUILD) to 
>> the Arch User Repository as well.
>> Reading through the build scripts for debian and centos left a few 
>> open questions, is there any direction on how to build the sw probe 
>> without these scripts?
>> I'd like to avoid using the hardcoded libevent 2.1.11 or even a 
>> bundled busybox, is this possible and foreseen?
>> A pointer to build instructions would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>> Georg
>>
>> ps: after subscribing to this mailinglist I received a welcome message 
>> with a bunch of outdated links, you might want to consider updating them.
>>
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