Installing Ingres Dynamic Playback on RHEL5.4

geraintjones — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:47:35 GMT

After recently installing the Ingres Dynamic Playback utility on RHEL5.4, I’m briefly noting my experiences here, in case it helps anyone else trying the same.

For further info on Playback, see the Ingres community wiki page:
Dynamic Playback - Ingres Community Wiki

A couple of packages to install first:

It’s assumed that the necessary OS packages have been installed to allow compilation (gcc, make etc).

Mono

The packages for RHEL5 can be found at:
Index of /pub/mono/download-stable/RHEL_5
Choose the directory appropriate to your architecture eg i386 or x86-64.

Required packages are mono-addon-core, mono-addon-libgdiplus0, mono-addon-data.
Install as root. (rpm –Uvh …)

Other packages (from the RHEL5 distribution media)

If not already installed, the packages giflib and libexif are required.

Get the Playback software

This is described on the Ingres community wiki page as shown above.

I grabbed the latest development code rather than a source package from sourceforge.

If using sourceforge packages, it’s likely some of the following steps won’t be required (I didn’t try it so can’t advise).

The version I downloaded included a couple of very minor errors that needed to be corrected. They’re described here, but note this was development code on 15 Sep 10, it could be updated at any time:

In Preprocess/monobuild.sh, reference to a couple of files was missing, add:

“./Preprocess/Parser/ParserSC930v6.cs” “./Preprocess/Parser/ParserSC930v7.cs”

In Playback/db.h there weren’t enough arguments to db_connect specified:

extern int db_connect( const char *, char *, char *, char *, char *)

should read

extern int db_connect( const char *, char *, char *, char *, char *, char *)

Autoconf

The autoconf utility is needed to generate the configure script in the “Playback” directory.

RHEL5 ships with version 2.59 of autoconf. However, Playback requires a later version – at least 2.61

Get the autoconf source from Index of /gnu/autoconf

I used version 2.61, although later versions are available.

To install autoconf is a familiar process (at least to those who’ve installed packages from source before). Uncompress & extract the tar file, followed by “configure”, “make”, “make install”. Root permissions are required for “make install”. Full details are in the “INSTALL” file in the tarball.

One thing to watch out for is that “make install” will install into /usr/local/bin. If autoconf 2.59 is already installed, that will remain in place in /usr/bin.
When it comes to running autoconf later, if both versions are installed then it’s necessary to either set PATH appropriately to find /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, or specify the full pathname to autoconf, ie: /usr/local/bin/autoconf

Compile

I compiled under the “ingres” user, with the environment already set up correctly for using Ingres (II_SYSTEM, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

A couple of additional environment settings to make:

Add to PATH: /opt/novell/mono/bin

Add to LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /opt/novell/mono/lib64 (if running 64-bit OS) and /opt/novell/mono/lib

Then run autoconf - from the ‘main’ directory:

cd Playback
/usr/local/bin/autoconf

Note for 64 bit RHEL5: A 32 bit binary will be built. I had to ensure a 32-bit libingres.a existed (in $II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib/lp32 – install “Ingres 32bit support” from ingbuild if not), then edit the “configure” file and add “lp32/” to the end of the INGLIBDIR setting: INGLIBDIR=”\$(II_SYSTEM)/ingres/lib/lp32/”

Finally compile:

cd ..
make

Done

That’s it. I’ve deliberately limited the content here to installing rather than using Playback, and further to installing specifically on i386/x86-64 RHEL5 - YMMV on other platforms.

Actually I will mention just a couple of things. Firstly the locations the build process put the software in my case:

./Preprocess/Preprocess/bin/Debug/Preprocess.exe
(run with “mono /Preprocess.exe”)
./Playback/playback

Then there’s a further environment setting (in addition to the mono-related additions to PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH listed in the Compile section above) which is needed to run the preprocessor:
export MONO_PATH=/Preprocess/Preprocess/lib

Also, some info which, although relevant at time of writing, could very quickly become out of date:
The output of trace point sc930 is updated as versions of Ingres move on. The version of playback I downloaded recognises sc930 output files up to version 7. The engineering build of Ingres 10.1/103 is the first to move to version 8 of sc930 output files.

Hope this info is of some use to somebody somewhere. Please let me know of any inaccuracies or updates required…

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