Yeah it appears I was confused on a few facts gathered from readme's and googling. I guess I thought that section was for installing from source.<div><br></div><div>Ok, thanks the help. Gonna remove my foot from my mouth and continue on!</div>
<div>-Alex<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Matthias Radestock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@lshift.net">matthias@lshift.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Alex,<div class="im"><br>
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Alex Wayne wrote:<br>
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In my defense the installation instruction don't mention rabbit actually has to be compiled at all: <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html#install-generic-unix" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html#install-generic-unix</a><br>
It says:<br>
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1. Install erlang<br>
2. unpack rabbitmq tarball and place with other erlang libs<br>
3. Customize script/rabbitmq-server environment variables<br>
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Actually, the instructions (at the above URL and in the INSTALL file inside the tarball) say<br>
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# Install a recent version of Erlang.<br>
# Download rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-version.tar.gz, where version is the version of RabbitMQ Server you want to install.<br>
# Contained in the tarball is a directory named rabbitmq_server-version. You should extract this into somewhere appropriate for application binaries on your system.<br>
# Within the sbin directory is a shell script rabbitmq-server which may need customisation for your installation. [...]<div class="im"><br>
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Not actually knowing erlang at all I had no idea this was a even a compiled language at all. It seems that a step 2.5 "run a make command in the rabbitmq-server_version directory", would have saved me a headache.<br>
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The rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-version.tar.gz mentioned above, available from <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/server.html" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/server.html</a>, is pre-compiled. So no compile steps are necessary. And there is no Makefile in that tar. Did you perhaps download the *source* tarball? In that case the clue is in the name ;) and the build instructions at <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/build-server.html" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/build-server.html</a> tell you what to do.<br>
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As an aside, there is no need for rabbit to be put in a "place with other erlang libs" - that used to be the case prior to 1.7.0 but is no longer true (and the docs reflect that).<br>
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
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Matthias.<br>
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