Steps to compile vg locally without needing sudo access about vg

[ekg]

@pgrosu Very interesting, and thanks for the writeup. I try to avoid setting additional things in the ld search path. When programs are mature and distributed via package managers I think it makes sense to share libraries, but for applications like this one the ideal is to have a fully self-contained binary.

We could encapsulate jansson in the build, but it's only used for JSON output from protobuf using pbjson, which is going away as soon as JSON support is default in protobuf 3: protocolbuffers/protobuf#350

[pgrosu]

@ekg No problem, that makes sense - sorry for the noise. I'll close the issue, and if people need something like this, then they can search for it here.

Thank you for the link about protobuf 3 going to provide support for JSON, which can simplify some things. Either way, if the the compilation could be streamlined from just cloning the git repository, that would make it easier, but probably not a high-priority.

Thank you for making this great program!
Paul

[ekg]

FYI, at present you can use make get-deps on ubuntu/debian to get the
dependencies. I'm not sure if mac OSX builds have worked yet.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Paul Grosu [email protected]
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[pgrosu]

That's a very useful feature, but I think I need sudo access for it based on the following line, which I don't always have on all systems:

https://github.com/ekg/vg/blob/master/Makefile#L20

Still a very nice feature to have in the Makefile for self-installing the required packages. I have not tried it on a Mac yet.

[ekg]

Yes, you're right that you need sudo! vg hasn't quite grown up, but it's
getting closer. I think I'll hold on the jansson issue for the moment
though.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Paul Grosu [email protected]
wrote:

That's a very useful feature, but I think I need sudo access for it based
on the following line, which I don't always have on all systems:

https://github.com/ekg/vg/blob/master/Makefile#L20

Still a very nice feature to have in the Makefile for self-installing the
required packages. I have not tried it on a Mac yet.

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[pgrosu]

It's no problem - to me it feels complete and fairly mature :) There's always a way to make things run, so I'm not too worried. It was just another way to reach autonomy :)