| Building Moses RPM | |
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| *** WARNING *** | |
| Before completing *any* of the tasks outlined in this README, please commit and push any changes you wish to be included in your installer. | |
| *** WARNING *** | |
| Building the RPM SPEC file | |
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| The first phase is to construct the RPM SPEC file in $HOME/rpmbuild. The build_source.sh script builds all the artefacts needed to build. This script needs the following information: | |
| - The Git repository from which an installer will be built, | |
| - The branch in the Git repository to build, | |
| - The location of Boost on the build machine, and | |
| - The version of the installed Moses distribution. | |
| For example, to build the RELEASE-1.0 branch in the mosesdecoder repository (git://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder.git): | |
| $ build_source.sh -r git://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder.git -b RELASE-1.0 -v 1.0 -t /usr | |
| This builds the source tarballs in the $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory and the moses.spec file in $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS. | |
| Building the RPM | |
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| Change directory to $HOME/rpmbuild, and build the binary RPM with: | |
| $ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/moses.spec | |
| This will download IRSTLM v5.70.04 and GIZA++ v2, then build them along with Moses and make the RPM in the directory $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<architecture>/moses-<version>-1.<architecture>.rpm. | |
| For example building on a 64 bit Intel architecture, and building v1.0 the RPM would be called moses-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm. | |
| Building a Debian package | |
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| The Alien tool converts RPM packages to Debian packages. If a Debian package is required then follow the instructions on the following web-page: | |
| https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RPM/AlienHowto | |