Howto Install 4store

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

My experiences (with the assistance of Will Waites) of installing 4store On Ubuntu Jaunty.

No packaged versions of code (there is one in fact from Yves Raimond from mid 2009 but now out of date …), so need to get from github.

Recommend using will waites fork which adds useful features like:

  • multiple connections
  • triple deletion

Note I had to make various fixes to get this to compile on my ubuntu machine. See diff below.

Install standard ubuntu/debian dependencies:

  • See 4store wiki
  • rasqal needs to be latest version
    • Get it
    • ./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var
    • make, make install
  • Now install

Now to start a DB:

  • 4s-backend-setup {db-name}
  • 4s-backend {db-name}

Now for the python bindings also created by will waites and which can be found here

  • On my Jaunty needed to convert size_t to int everywhere
  • Needed to run with latest cython (v0.12) installed via pip/easy_install
  • To run tests need backend db called py4s_test (harcoded)

To run multiple backends at once you will probably need to have avahi dev libraries (not sure which!).

Diff for wwaites 4store fork (updated diff as of 2010-04-28)


diff --git a/src/backend/Makefile b/src/backend/Makefile
index 51a957c..e64eb13 100644
--- a/src/backend/Makefile
+++ b/src/backend/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ include ../discovery.mk
 include ../rev.mk
 include ../darwin.mk
 
-CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror -g -std=gnu99 -O2 -I.. -DGIT_REV=\"$(gitrev)\" `pkg-config --cflags raptor glib-2.0`
+CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -std=gnu99 -O2 -I.. -DGIT_REV=\"$(gitrev)\" `pkg-config --cflags raptor glib-2.0`
 LDFLAGS = $(ldfdarwin) $(ldflinux) -lz `pkg-config --libs raptor glib-2.0 $(avahi)`
 
 LIB_OBJS = chain.o bucket.o list.o tlist.o rhash.o mhash.o sort.o \
diff --git a/src/common/Makefile b/src/common/Makefile
index 9b33e94..60cd04f 100644
--- a/src/common/Makefile
+++ b/src/common/Makefile
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ifdef dnssd
   mdns_flags = -DUSE_DNS_SD
 endif
 
-CFLAGS = -std=gnu99 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -g -O2 -I../ -DGIT_REV=\"$(gitrev)\" $(mdns_flags) `pkg-config --cflags $(pkgs)`
+CFLAGS = -std=gnu99 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -O2 -I../ -DGIT_REV=\"$(gitrev)\" $(mdns_flags) `pkg-config --cflags $(pkgs)`
 LDFLAGS = $(ldfdarwin) $(lfdlinux)
 LIBS = `pkg-config --libs $(pkgs)`
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/results.c b/src/frontend/results.c
index 485ac31..162aa3d 100644
--- a/src/frontend/results.c
+++ b/src/frontend/results.c
@@ -381,12 +381,12 @@ fs_value fs_expression_eval(fs_query *q, int row, int block, rasqal_expression *
             return v;
         }
 
-        case RASQAL_EXPR_SUM:
-        case RASQAL_EXPR_AVG:
-        case RASQAL_EXPR_MIN:
-        case RASQAL_EXPR_MAX:
-        case RASQAL_EXPR_LAST:
-            return fs_value_error(FS_ERROR_INVALID_TYPE, "unsupported aggregate operation");
+        //case RASQAL_EXPR_SUM:
+        //case RASQAL_EXPR_AVG:
+        //case RASQAL_EXPR_MIN:
+        //case RASQAL_EXPR_MAX:
+        //case RASQAL_EXPR_LAST:
+        //    return fs_value_error(FS_ERROR_INVALID_TYPE, "unsupported aggregate operation");
 
 #endif

Diff to wwaites py4s (updated diff as of 2010-04-28)


diff --git a/_py4s.pxd b/_py4s.pxd
index 5251289..0e26250 100644
--- a/_py4s.pxd
+++ b/_py4s.pxd
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ cdef extern from "frontend/results.h":
 
 cdef extern from "frontend/import.h":
        int fs_import_stream_start(fsp_link *link, char *model_uri, char *mimety
-       int fs_import_stream_data(fsp_link *link, unsigned char *data, size_t co
+       int fs_import_stream_data(fsp_link *link, unsigned char *data, int count
        int fs_import_stream_finish(fsp_link *link, int *count, int *errors)
 
 cdef extern from "frontend/update.h":