steps to compile Bazel under Redhat Linux Enterprise 5

[Jack47]

With the help of Google Bazel team, I successfully compiled Bazel under Redhat Linux Enterprise 5.7. The steps needed is as described as below:

PS: Chinese version is there.

Bazel needs JDK 1.8 and  gcc compiler that support c++0x.

1. download Bazel code:

git clone https://github.com/google/bazel/

2. install libarchive:

wget http://libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.1.2.tar.gz 

gunzip libarchive-3.1.2.tar.gz

tar libarchive-3.1.2.tar

./configure

make

sudo make install

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

3. install jdk 1.8

 download jdk-8u45-linux-x64.rpm from oracle:

 sudo rpm -ivh jdk-8u45-linux-x64.rpm

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_45/




4. install gcc 4.8 

sudo wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo

sudo yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc-c++

scl enable devtoolset-2 bash

5. stub out sandbox compile

because linux kernel is too old to support namespace, so stub out sandbox support:

#if [[ $PLATFORM == "linux" ]]; then

# log "Compiling sandbox..."

# "${CC}" -o output/namespace-sandbox -std=c99 src/ main/tools/namespace-sandbox.c

#fi

Then Build successful! Have fun with Bazel

[mjp...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Thanks for this. Can you elaborate on Step 5? What file is that code in that has to be stubbed out? I can't find it within the bazel source (even with a grep -r).

Thanks,
Matt Post

[Damien Martin-guillerez]

This is in scripts/bootstrap/compile.sh

FYI, I have some changes that I am currently integrating to remove that part and all C++ compilation from this script so it's easier to compile on various platform (only java compilation would happens outside bazel).

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[mjp...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 3:17:45 PM UTC-5, Damien Martin-guillerez wrote:
> This is in scripts/bootstrap/compile.sh
>
>
> FYI, I have some changes that I am currently integrating to remove that part and all C++ compilation from this script so it's easier to compile on various platform (only java compilation would happens outside bazel).

That would be great! I have been compiling from source to get this to work on CentOS 6.7 in order to compile Tensor Flow, with no luck so far. This worked to get bazel compiled, at least, though it still complains a bit.