[rt-users] RT on gentoo

[Patrick Hurley]

> I'm having a hard time getting RT to install on a gentoo system.  If
> anyone has any guidance, please let me know.  I know there is no
ebuild
> (portage) for gentoo except for a half-baked one from July or so.  I
> used RT a few years back and don't recall it being this hard to get
> going, but I'm looking forward to using it again.  Thanks.

I just completed an install of RT 3.0.9 w/ MySQL on gentoo, but I
haven't done too much testing to make sure it functions properly -- I
know I can login, and that's about it.

But I just followed the RT install guidelines, and they seemed to work.
The few difficulties I ran into:

1) Statically compiling apache 1.3 w/ mod_perl.  Lots o' discussions on
gentoo forums about doing this, and apparently it's not really possible
to do this through in ebuild.  I went ahead and just emerged apache 1.3
with mod_perl as a DSO, just purely out of curiosity in seeing what
would happen.  

2) Perl modules, of course.  Same kind of problems I had with Red Hat.
I didn't really use ebuilds for the perl modules, as they are not really
up to date.  So I manually CPAN'd all of them.  A couple I had to
manually compile and install.  If I remember correctly, there was in
issue with the mod_perl tests with Apache::Test and/or libapreq -- the
tests kept failing, I installed anyway, and all seems fine.

I think that's about it.


ph.