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A stream processing framework for high-throughput applications.
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Bifrost requires exuberant-ctags package. Not available on Rocky 9.4 #246

Open jj-crowley opened 3 months ago

jj-crowley commented 3 months ago

Hi - I tried following the instructions of installing bifrost on a Rocky 9.4 Linux VM and came up against an issue. The installation requires the use of a package called exuberant-ctags and it is not available to Rocky 9.4. It is however part of the base installation of Ubuntu OS. This seems to suggest that bifrost will not be compatible with Rocky Linux. I came up against this issue a few weeks ago but should do another test install just to verify what I'm writing here is 100% correct. JJ

dentalfloss1 commented 3 months ago

Hi, have you tried any of the packages from the website: https://ctags.sourceforge.net/ ?

jj-crowley commented 3 months ago

I am going to go through the whole process of installation again. As it happened a few weeks ago and I didn't take proper notes of all the twists and turns I took. But I did look for exuberant ctags on the internet and found a package but I think it didn't quite work out...I will go through the whole process from scratch and write it up properly.

jj-crowley commented 3 months ago

Ok, from a fresh install of Rocky Linux 9.4 on aarch64...

[jjcrowley@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf install exuberant-ctags Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - aarch64 6.7 MB/s | 22 MB 00:03
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 openh264 (From Cisco) - aarch64 2.9 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 - BaseOS 2.9 MB/s | 2.3 MB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 - AppStream 7.5 MB/s | 7.0 MB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 - CRB 1.9 MB/s | 1.9 MB 00:01
Rocky Linux 9 - Extras 9.7 kB/s | 15 kB 00:01
No match for argument: exuberant-ctags Error: Unable to find a match: exuberant-ctags

After downloading exuberant-ctags from source forge...

[jjcrowley@localhost Downloads]$ sudo rpm -i ctags-5.8-1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6 is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by ctags-5.8-1.i386

So I just did this instead and it seemed to work out - just dnf install ctags..

63 sudo dnf install ctags 64 sudo pip install numpy contextlib2 pint ctypesgen==1.0.2 65 sudo dnf install python3-pip-21.2.3-8.el9.noarch 66 cd .. 67 cd bifrost/ 68 ls 69 ./configure 70 sudo dnf install gcc 71 sudo dnf install g++ 72 ./configure 73 make 74 sudo make install

It compiled without complaining. I haven't actually ran anything in bifrost but if generic ctags works then you might be able to install on Rocky Linux 9.4 Hope this is useful to someone.

Best regards, JJ

dentalfloss1 commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the info, we'll discuss this issue soon. Keep us posted on if you run into any problems with this ctags package

jaycedowell commented 1 month ago

For what it's worth I also ran into this on Red Hat 8.8 and dnf install ctags worked for me. I was able to build/install Bifrost and run a pipeline. The pipeline even did something.

@dentalfloss1 Maybe we should update our documentation to provide this alternate package name for Red Hat/Rocky/other Red Hat clones?