86. Building sinfo 0.0.45 on Debian Testing

I use sinfo to keep an eye on my cluster:
http://www.ant.uni-bremen.de/whomes/rinas/sinfo/#down

The debian repo version is 0.0.42-1
The latest version is sinfo 0.0.45

Here's the changelog since 0.0.42

sinfo 0.0.45- Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:07:27 +0100corrected README compile hint for FreeBSDadded configure flag --disable-IPv6 to disable IPv6 supportsinfo 0.0.44 - Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:32:33 +0100added reconnect for TCP connectionsadded LIBADD to make it --as-needed linkable tnx to T.Hardersinfo 0.0.43 - Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:00:13 +0200fixed printing bug (integer underflow) when using sinfo -L or -W tnx to J.Erkkilae

There's little reason for compiling it yourself, but there's really no reason not to try either. I like debian and I like using apt-get to manage my system. Learning to be a bit more independent won't hurt though.
So here we go:

--START HERE --
wget http://www.ant.uni-bremen.de/whomes/rinas/sinfo/download/sinfo-0.0.45.tar.gz

tar -xvf sinfo-0.0.45.tar.gz 

cd sinfo-0.0.45/

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libasio-dev libboost-signals-dev

./configure
(If your interface configuration has disabled IPv6 you must use ../configure --disable-IPv6 or sinfod will silently exit)
make 
sudo checkinstall


Done.

Start the sinfo daemon by
sudo sinfod --quiet --bcastaddress=192.168.1.255


Use
sinfo
to monitor

If you had sinfo installed before, autoremove it, then edit the left-behind /etc/init.d/sinfo script and change

/usr/sbin/sinfod

 to

 /usr/sbin/local/sinfod

Otherwise see http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/debian-testing-wheezy-64-building_23.html for an example of writing your own init.d script.


To see all the cluster nodes running sinfo, just start
sinfo

If you don't see anything, then you've most likely not opened up your firewall -- you need to be able to listen to bcast.

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Build errors:

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Error:

In file included from message.cc:2:0:

message.h:5:34: fatal error: boost/shared_array.hpp: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

make[2]: *** [message.lo] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/sinfo-0.0.45/libmessage'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/sinfo-0.0.45/libmessage'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Solution:

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev

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Error:
In file included from udpmessagereceiver.cc:2:0:
udpmessagereceiver.h:4:20: fatal error: asio.hpp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [udpmessagereceiver.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/sinfo-0.0.45/libmessageio'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Solution:
sudo apt-get install libasio-dev

which provides

/usr/include/asio.hpp
which is different from the asio.hpp included in libboost

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Error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_signals-mt

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[2]: *** [sinfod] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/sinfo-0.0.45/sinfod'

make[1]: *** [all] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/sinfo-0.0.45/sinfod'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Solution:

sudo apt-get install libboost-signals-dev

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