How to compile the Apache QPID C++ broker from SVN without checking out the Java broker.

I was trying to check out and build the Apache Qpid C++ broker from source. The instructions say to check out  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release/qpid/.  But that Java broker dir is HUGE and I don't event WANT the Java broker!

So at first I just checked out the cpp dir. Why not? Well the build breaks in a strange way, something about cannot execute rubygen.mk.

make[1]: execvp: ./rubygen.mk: Permission denied 

It turns out that there is a dependency on the specs dir. But autoconf doesn't tell you about it. So you must check out BOTH dirs to a common dir, then build the cpp broker.

eg:

mkdir qpid

cd qpid

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release/qpid/cpp cpp

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release/qpid/specs specs

cd cpp

./bootstrap

./configure

make

make check

make install

That should do it.