GBrowseInstallation
Notes on installing Gbrowse in the WormBase environment.
One barrier to packaging GBrowse with the rest of the wormbase code-base in CVS has been the architecture dependent paths that GBrowse uses by default. The following recipe gets rid of this "feature"
1) Check out a fresh copy of the 'stable' branch, or run 'make realclean' and do a CVS update. If you have it, preserve the file GGB.def from the previous installation.
GGB.def
# This file is read by Makefile.PL CGIBIN=/usr/local/wormbase/cgi-perl/seq DO_XS=0 APACHE=/usr/local/apache CONF=/usr/local/wormbase/conf GBROWSE_ROOT=gbrowse HTDOCS=/usr/local/wormbase/html #LIB=/usr/local/wormbase/lib VERSION=1.69 BIOGRAPHICS_VERSION=1.654
2) Run perl Makefile.PL with the usual options plus DO_XS=0. You can either edit the GGB.def or use the command line args. To contain the perl libraries, you can set the LIB option as well. The DO_XS option is why the GBrowse libs have been going into architecture-dependent paths. It concerns a tiny but rarely-used bit C code associated with one of the aligner plugins. It is not used in the wormbase.
perl Makefile.pl [ARGS]
3) Do the installation with the incantation below. The UNINST=1 should remove the previous installation of libs in the architecture dependent paths but you will want to check to be sure. Manually prune the directory /system/dependent/path/Bio if necessary. Check first to make sure bioperl is not installed in there (it should not be).
sudo make install UNINST=1