Ceph

could you help me understand why "if it remains uninstalled then some libraries like gcc,cmake,rdkafka,etc remains uninstalled."?

Kefu Chai wrote:

could you help me understand why "if it remains uninstalled then some libraries like gcc,cmake,rdkafka,etc remains uninstalled."?

maybe they require curl to download the packages before installing, or maybe if a error is found in running `install.sh` it will straightaway cancel the process and bail out, not sure.

I know when I installed curl on my system the error of 'missing curl' was gone.

@Abhinav, please tell us what operating system this is happening on.

On RPM-based operating systems, install-deps.sh will install "libcurl-devel".

On Debian and Debian derivatives, it will install "libcurl4-openssl-dev".

Personally, I doubt curl itself is needed to build ceph from source, but I don't yet have proof of that.

Can you try the following experiment?

1. completely remove/purge the "curl" package (DEB/RPM) from the system
2. create and cd into a fresh clone of ceph upstream master branch
3. ./install-deps.sh

After this, check if "libcurl-devel" (RPM-based OSes) or "libcurl4-openssl-dev" (Debian-derivs) is installed. If it is, follow this by:

4. ./run-make-check.sh

If this bug is valid, you should see some build error resulting from the absence of curl in the system. Please cut-and-paste that error here.