Compiling Couchdb on Karmic
This had my annoyed for a while. When I came to run ./configure I got:
checking for JS_NewContext in -lmozjs... no checking for JS_NewContext in -ljs... no checking for JS_NewContext in -ljs3250... no checking for JS_NewContext in -ljs32... no configure: error: Could not find the js library. Is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey library installed?
I was unable to find much help until I looked at the instructions for installing from source http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu?action=show&redirect=InstallingOnUbuntu. Which in retrospect would have been a good place to start. Use the following to stop the above error:
./configure --with-js-include=/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.1.9/unstable --with-js-lib=/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.9/lib
Oh and make sure you have xulrunner and its dev package installed.
