perfsonar development work

[Mukul Sabharwal <>]

Hello,

After struggling some what with installing the SQL-MA service on 
FreeBSD, I realized that the culprit was JDK 1.5, which if runs
in linux compatibility mode will not allow the SQL-MA to install.

My installation notes for anybody who might be in a similar situation

Installation Notes for PerfSonar SQL-MA Service
-----------------------------------------------

(A) Installing Java on FreeBSD

        I. Downloading files

                <-> Download JDK 1.4.2 for Linux
                        (x) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
                                --> j2sdk-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.bin

                <-> Download JDK 1.5.0 sources for Linux
                        (x) 
http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.xml
                                --> SCSL Source (jdk-1_5_0-src.scsl.zip)
                                --> SCSL Binaries (jdk-1_5_0-bin.scsl.zip)

                <-> Download patch files for FreeBSD
                        (x) 
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html
                                --> Patch Level 4 
(bsd-jdk15-patches-4.tar.bz2)

                <-> Move these four files to /usr/ports/distfiles
                        (x) mv *.zip *.bz2 *.bin /usr/ports/distfiles

        II. Running commands

                <-> sudo kldload linprocfs
                <-> sudo mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc
                <-> cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15
                <-> sudo make install clean

(B) Installing MySQL on FreeBSD

        I. Running commands

                <-> cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server
                <-> sudo make -DWITH_LINUXTHREADS install clean
                <-> sudo mysql_install_db
                <-> sudo chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql
                <-> sudo chgrp -R mysql /var/db/mysql
                <-> echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' > /etc/rc.conf
                <-> sudo mysqladmin -u root password OakEsNet

(C) Setting up the build environment

        I. Running commands

                <-> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.5.0
                <-> export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
                <-> export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.7.0
                <-> export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

(D) Installing PerfSonar

        I. Downloading files

                <-> Download Ant 1.7.0
                        (x) http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
                                --> apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.gz
                        (x) Untar
                                --> tar zxf apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.gz

                <-> Download SQL-MA RC*
			(x) 
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/PerfSONAR_Java_SQL_MA_release_candidate
                                --> perfSONAR-SQL-MA-1.0-RC*.tar.gz

        II. Running commands

                        <-> tar zxf perfSONAR-SQL-MA-1.0-RC*.tar.gz
                        <-> export PERFSONAR=$PWD/perfSONAR-SQL-MA-1.0-RC*
                        <-> cd $PERFSONAR/perfsonar/ant

        III. Reading a different guide

                <-> Now, start from "Step 4"
			(x) 
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/SQL_MA_Relese_Candidate_Installation_guide_v2


--
Mukul Sabharwal

Network Engineering, ESnet
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory