Building FRANKLIN on CentOS 5

 - This article is a Work in Progress, and may be unfinished or missing sections.

Introduction

Building Zimbra on any platform is really complex: there are many variables and places where things can go wrong.

Getting the source

There are two main ways to getting the Zimbra sources:

• Zimbra Community Builds (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zimbracommunity)
• Zimbra's official Perforce repositories

To download official Zimbra sources, first get proprietary Perforce client (free) from http://www.perforce.com/perforce/downloads/platform.html. Next create a temporary directory for the sources

   $ mkdir /home/username/temp

Next do some linking to work around p4's default behaviour:

   $ ln -s /home/username/temp /home/public

Then export some P4-related environment variables and do a full resync. This is required, because p4 is a proprietary program and it can't track changes for the public account.

   $ export P4EDITOR=nano
   $ export P4PORT=codes.zimbra.com:2666
   $ p4 -u public -P public1234 -c public-view sync -f //depot/zcs/FRANKLIN/...

Perforce should now start downloading the source code.