Not able to build couchdb on debian:trixie-slim

[Trilokkumar1]

make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release/config/external/icu/common' make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release' make[1]: *** [/tmp/js91/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release' make: *** [/tmp/js91/config/rules.mk:355: default] Error 2

[Trilokkumar1]

Here is the Dockerfile

`FROM debian:trixie-slim

ARG COUCHDB_VERSION=3.4.3
ARG CLOUSEAU_VERSION=2.25.0
ARG SLF4J_SIMPLE_BINDING_VERSION=2.0.7
ARG SLF4J_API_BINDING_VERSION=2.0.7

LABEL maintainer="CouchDB Developers dev@couchdb.apache.org"

# Add CouchDB user account
RUN groupadd -g 5984 -r couchdb && useradd -u 5984 -d /opt/couchdb -g couchdb couchdb

# Install system and build dependencies + pyenv/Rust build deps + ICU and C++ dev tools
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    autoconf libtool pkg-config yasm zlib1g-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev \
    git wget unzip maven runit locales curl clang llvm build-essential ca-certificates \
    dirmngr gnupg tini \
    make build-essential libbz2-dev libsqlite3-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev \
    libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev liblzma-dev python3-venv sudo \
    libicu-dev clang g++ libc++-dev

# Set locale
RUN sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //g' /etc/locale.gen && locale-gen
ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANGUAGE=en_US:en
ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

# Install pyenv and build Python 3.11.9
ENV PYENV_ROOT="/root/.pyenv"
ENV PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"

RUN git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git $PYENV_ROOT \
 && git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv.git $PYENV_ROOT/plugins/pyenv-virtualenv \
 && $PYENV_ROOT/bin/pyenv install 3.11.9 \
 && $PYENV_ROOT/bin/pyenv global 3.11.9 \
 && $PYENV_ROOT/shims/pip install --upgrade pip setuptools six

ENV PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/shims:$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"

# Install Rust (rustc/cargo) for SpiderMonkey
RUN curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | bash -s -- -y
ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:$PATH"

# Install autoconf 2.13 for SpiderMonkey
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.13.tar.gz \
 && tar xf autoconf-2.13.tar.gz \
 && cd autoconf-2.13 \
 && ./configure && make && make install \
 && cd .. && rm -rf autoconf-2.13 autoconf-2.13.tar.gz

# Download and prepare SpiderMonkey ESR91
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN wget https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/91.13.0esr/source/firefox-91.13.0esr.source.tar.xz \
 && tar xf firefox-91.13.0esr.source.tar.xz \
 && dir=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -name 'firefox*' | head -n 1) \
 && if [ -z "$dir" ]; then echo "Source directory not found after extraction!"; exit 1; fi \
 && mv "$dir" js91

# Patch Python 'rU' mode for Python 3.11+
RUN find /tmp/js91/python/mozbuild -type f -name "*.py" -exec sed -i 's/"rU"/"r"/g' {} +
RUN find /tmp/js91/python/mozbuild -type f -name "*.py" -exec sed -i "s/'rU'/'r'/g" {} +

# Remove unsupported '-fexperimental-new-pass-manager' flag for Clang
RUN find /tmp/js91 -type f -exec sed -i 's/-fexperimental-new-pass-manager//g' {} +

# Build SpiderMonkey using Python 3.11 from pyenv
WORKDIR /tmp/js91/js/src
RUN autoconf
RUN mkdir build-release && cd build-release && \
    PYTHON=/root/.pyenv/versions/3.11.9/bin/python3 ../configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-debug --disable-jemalloc --enable-readline && \
    make -j$(nproc) && \
    make install

# Clean up SpiderMonkey source
WORKDIR /
RUN rm -rf /tmp/js91 /tmp/firefox-91.13.0esr.source.tar.xz

# Install Temurin 8 JDK via tarball (specific version, as of 8u412)
RUN mkdir -p /opt/java && \
    wget -qO- "https://github.com/adoptium/temurin8-binaries/releases/download/jdk8u412-b08/OpenJDK8U-jdk_x64_linux_hotspot_8u412b08.tar.gz" \
      | tar xz --strip-components=1 -C /opt/java && \
    ln -sf /opt/java/bin/java /usr/bin/java && \
    ln -sf /opt/java/bin/javac /usr/bin/javac
ENV JAVA_HOME=/opt/java
ENV PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

# Fetch and extract Clouseau
RUN mkdir -p /opt/couchdb-search/lib && \
    wget https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau/releases/download/${CLOUSEAU_VERSION}/clouseau-${CLOUSEAU_VERSION}-dist.zip && \
    unzip -j clouseau-${CLOUSEAU_VERSION}-dist.zip -d /opt/couchdb-search/lib/ && \
    rm -f /opt/couchdb-search/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar && \
    rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

RUN mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:${SLF4J_SIMPLE_BINDING_VERSION} -Dartifact=org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${SLF4J_API_BINDING_VERSION} && \
    mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:${SLF4J_SIMPLE_BINDING_VERSION}:jar -DoutputDirectory=/opt/couchdb-search/lib && \
    mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${SLF4J_API_BINDING_VERSION}:jar -DoutputDirectory=/opt/couchdb-search/lib

# Build CouchDB from source
WORKDIR /usr/src
RUN git clone --branch ${COUCHDB_VERSION} --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/couchdb.git couchdb-src
WORKDIR /usr/src/couchdb-src
RUN ./configure && make release && cp -a rel/couchdb /opt/ && rm -rf /usr/src/couchdb-src

# Set permissions on CouchDB directories
RUN chown -R couchdb:couchdb /opt/couchdb

# Copy config files and set permissions
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/clouseau/clouseau.ini /opt/couchdb-search/etc/
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/clouseau/simplelogger.properties /opt/couchdb-search/lib/
RUN install -d -m 0755 -o couchdb -g 0 -p /opt/couchdb-search/etc /opt/couchdb-search/lib /opt/couchdb/data/search_indexes && \
    find -L /opt/couchdb-search ! \( -user couchdb -group 0 \) -exec chown -f couchdb:0 '{}' +; \
    find -L /opt/couchdb-search -type d ! -perm 0755 -exec chmod -f 0755 '{}' +; \
    find -L /opt/couchdb-search -type f ! -perm 0664 -exec chmod -f 0664 '{}' +;

RUN install -d -m 0775 -o couchdb -g 0 -p /opt/couchdb/etc /opt/couchdb/data /opt/couchdb/bin && \
    find -L /opt/couchdb ! \( -user couchdb -group 0 \) -exec chown -f couchdb:0 '{}' +; \
    find -L /opt/couchdb -type d ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +; \
    find -L /opt/couchdb -type f ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +;

RUN install -d -m 0775 -o couchdb -g 0 -p /run/runit /etc/service && \
    find -L /run/runit -type d ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +; \
    find -L /run/runit -type f ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +; \
    find -L /etc/service -type d ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +; \
    find -L /etc/service -type f ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -f 0775 '{}' +;

# Add licenses
COPY licenses /licenses

# Add configuration files
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/10-docker-default.ini /opt/couchdb/etc/default.d/
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/vm.args /opt/couchdb/etc/
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/run /etc/service/couchdb/
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 resources/run_clouseau /etc/service/couchdb-search/run
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 local.ini /opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/
COPY --chown=couchdb:0 docker-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin
RUN ln -s usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh /docker-entrypoint.sh # backwards compat

USER couchdb:root
ENTRYPOINT ["tini", "-s", "--", "/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
VOLUME /opt/couchdb/data
EXPOSE 5984 4369 9100
CMD ["/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb"]

`

[Trilokkumar1]

Attempting to install CouchDB 3.4.3 using the official Debian packages on debian:trixie-slim fails due to missing dependencies. Building from source also fails because SpiderMonkey versions and ICU versions in Trixie/Bookworm do not match CouchDB 3.x requirements.

[big-r81]

make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release/config/external/icu/common' make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release' make[1]: *** [/tmp/js91/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/js91/js/src/build-release' make: *** [/tmp/js91/config/rules.mk:355: default] Error 2

This has nothing do do with CouchDB, it comes from compiling SpiderMonkey and it seems there are some problems compiling the shipped icu sources.

Here is the Dockerfile

`FROM debian:trixie-slim

ARG COUCHDB_VERSION=3.4.3
ARG CLOUSEAU_VERSION=2.25.0
ARG SLF4J_SIMPLE_BINDING_VERSION=2.0.7
ARG SLF4J_API_BINDING_VERSION=2.0.7
...

Is this your own Dockerfile, or from where do you get it? Did you try the docker images from DockerHub (official Docker image)

Attempting to install CouchDB 3.4.3 using the official Debian packages on debian:trixie-slim fails due to missing dependencies. Building from source also fails because SpiderMonkey versions and ICU versions in Trixie/Bookworm do not match CouchDB 3.x requirements.

What are you doing exactly and what error messages do you get?

[Trilokkumar1]

@big-r81 Thanks for the quick response.

We are building a custom Docker image with CouchDB 3.4.3 + Clouseau starting from debian:trixie-slim.

Installing CouchDB fails due to missing dependencies (libmozjs-78-0, libicu72). Building SpiderMonkey from source also fails because ICU versions in Trixie/Bookworm don’t match CouchDB requirements.

We are trying to move to a newer Debian base to address critical CVEs, but CouchDB 3.4.3 packages and SpiderMonkey compilation fail on these newer releases.

Is using the official DockerHub image the recommended approach, or is there a way to build CouchDB 3.4.3 + Clouseau on newer Debian releases?

[big-r81]

@big-r81 Thanks for the quick response.

We are building a custom Docker image with CouchDB 3.4.3 + Clouseau starting from debian:trixie-slim.

fyi, CouchDB 3.5.0 is the latest version

Installing CouchDB fails due to missing dependencies (libmozjs-78-0, libicu72). Building SpiderMonkey from source also fails because ICU versions in Trixie/Bookworm don’t match CouchDB requirements.

Trixie ships with SpiderMonkey 128 which you could use instead. You need to tell CouchDB to use it:

./configure --spidermonkey-version 128

[Trilokkumar1]

build is failing

`===> Building escript for rebar...
cp: cannot stat '/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/_build/prod/bin/rebar3': No such file or directory
===> Hook for escriptize failed!

escript: exception throw: rebar_abort
  in function  rebar_utils:abort/0 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_utils.erl, line 729)
  in call from rebar_utils:sh/2 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_utils.erl, line 203)
  in call from lists:foreach_1/2 (lists.erl, line 2310)
  in call from rebar_hooks:run_all_hooks/6 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_hooks.erl, line 19)
  in call from rebar_prv_escriptize:do/1 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_prv_escriptize.erl, line 101)
  in call from rebar_core:do/2 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_core.erl, line 155)
  in call from rebar_prv_do:do_task/5 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_prv_do.erl, line 75)
  in call from rebar_core:do/2 (/usr/src/couchdb-src/src/rebar3/apps/rebar/src/rebar_core.erl, line 155)
The command '/bin/sh -c ./configure --spidermonkey-version=128     CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/mozjs-128 -I/usr/include/mozjs-128"     LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" &&     make release &&     cp -a rel/couchdb /opt/ &&     rm -rf /usr/src/couchdb-src' returned a non-zero code: 127
`

I have tried to install rebar manually as well

`# Download official prebuilt rebar3 escript and make it executable
RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/rebar3 https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/download/${REBAR3_VERSION}/rebar3 && \
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rebar3`

[big-r81]

Debian Trixie is now supported in the main branch of CouchDB after merging these PRs (apache/couchdb#5626, apache/couchdb#5626 and apache/couchdb-ci#85).