As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve recently upgraded a PC to the latest opensolaris release, and had to port some of the applications over. One of these is the fast and efficient rtorrent client. I did not find recent packages in the repositories and had to compile it myself. I found that a future version of opensolaris may have the client integrated, and a case for the SFW consolidation was recently submitted by Huawei Zhang with all the required patches included.
The first step in the install is to make sure that the development environment is setup correctly. From the base opensolaris, I installed the following:
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWncurses
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWcurl
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgmake
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgnu-automake-110
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWlibtool
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWaconf
The next step is to install libsig++ 2.0 that is required by rlibtorrent. Your mileage may vary, but I had better chance using gmake for all the builds. Note: You will find the lib in the repositories, but I had compilation issues and had to build it myself.
$ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.0/libsigc++-2.0.18.tar.gz
$ gzip -dc libsigc++-2.0.18.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd libsigc++-2.0.18
$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ pfexec gmake install
If you do not change the default location, you should have the libsig++ library installed under /usr/local.
Adding the following will help later to build the rlibtorrent and rtorrent itself.
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
Next, on to install rlibtorrent. This is were I would recommend you take to version submitted to SFW with the associated patches.
$ wget http://cr.opensolaris.org/~alz/bittorrent/raw_files/new/usr/src/lib/libtorrent/libtorrent-0.12.2.tar.gz
$ gzip -dc libtorrent-0.12.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ mkdir patches
$ cd patches
$ wget -r -l1 -nd -A.diff http://cr.opensolaris.org/~alz/bittorrent/raw_files/new/usr/src/lib/libtorrent/patches/
$ cd ../libtorrent-0.12.2
$ cat ../patches/rlibtorrent-* | gpatch -p1
The following is required because some am files were modified through the patching process.
$ aclocal-1.10 -I./scripts -I.
$ autoheader
$ libtoolize --automake --copy --force
$ automake-1.10
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --with-ports --disable-libtool-lock
$ gmake
$ pfexec gmake install
Same principles to finally build the rtorrent client.
$ wget http://cr.opensolaris.org/~alz/bittorrent/raw_files/new/usr/src/cmd/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.2.tar.gz
$ gzip -dc rtorrent-0.8.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd patches
$ wget -r -l1 -nd -A.diff http://cr.opensolaris.org/~alz/bittorrent/raw_files/new/usr/src/cmd/rtorrent/patches/
$ cd rtorrent-0.8.2
$ cat ../patches/rtorrent-0* | gpatch -p1
$ export LDFLAGS='-Wl,-zignore -Wl,-zcombreloc -Wl,-Bdirect -L/usr/sfw/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib -R/usr/gnu/lib -L/usr/lib/'
$ export CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses
$ aclocal-1.10 -I./scripts -I.
$ autoheader
$ libtoolize --automake --copy --force
$ automake-1.10
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ pfexec gmake install
Here it is. Hopefully I did not forget any step or made mistakes while capturing the commands, but you should have enough of a base to start and successfully build rtorrent. Do not hesitate to post a comment with your experience.
Updated on 09/07/2009 to add SUNWlibtool that I forgot. Thanks to Gustavo for pointing it out.
