FC10 rtorrent --with-xmlrpc-c for wTorrent webUI

[skiffx]

This is an approximate guide that worked for me after endless hours of googling how to finally compile rtorrent with xmlrpc-c support, hope it helps. You might need to install a few dependencies when ./configure fails using yum, like subversion, libsigc++20 libsigc++20-devel, ncurses, libedit.i386 and some others that are easily installed by yum package manager.
(Get the latest super stable version 1.06.x not the 1.11)
wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/source...pc-1.06.23.tgz
tar zxfv xmlrpc-1.06.23.tgz
cd xmlrpc-1.06.23
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-cplusplus (very important to do it this way)
make
make install
mkdir rtorrent-svn
cd rtorrent-svn
svn co svn://rakshasa.no/libtorrent/trunk
svn up
cd trunk
cd libtorrent
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ../rtorrent
./autogen.sh
./configure –with-xmlrpc-c
make
make install
echo “scgi_port = localhost:5000” >> .rtorrent.rc or download example config file and edit it by adding scgi_port = localhost:5000.
rtorrent (see that it works with xmlrpc-c support)

Now you can install any front-end, I personally went for wTorrent and you can follow their standard guides to complete the rest of the installation.

If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to ask.

[reashlin]

Hello,

I've just followed these instructions for a CentOS box - and I have no reason not to believe the following will hold true for Fedora

the packages I required to ensure everything would compile could be collected with

yum install libcurl-devel libidn-devel ncurses-devel ncurses gcc-c++ openssl openssl-devel krb5-devel zlib-devel libsepol-devel keyutils-libs-devel e2fsprogs-devel device-mapper-libs device-mapper-devel device-mapper libtool automake autoconf subversion perl-URI libsigc++20 libsigc++20-devel libedit curl-devel

[Valent]

In Fedora 14 rtorrent is currently at version 0.8.7, and it is compiled with --with-xmlrpc-c option (I looked into RPM .spec configuration file).

So stock rtorrent in fedora should work with rtgui or any other webui, but mine crashes

When I start rtorrent I get these messages in rtorrent:
(15:37:52) Using 'epoll' based polling.
(15:37:52) Using 'epoll' based polling.
(15:37:52) XMLRPC initialized with 836 functions.
(15:37:52) The SCGI socket is bound to a specific network device yet
may still pose a security risk, consider using 'scgi_local'.
(15:37:52) Closed XMLRPC log.

.rtorrent.rc has this line added:
scgi_port = localhost:5000

and when I try to connect to http://localhost/rtgui rtorrent just crashes:

rtorrent crash:
Stack dump not enabled.
Aborted (core dumped)

If I comment scgi_port line I can't connect to rtorrent but is also doesn't crash (obviously), I don't know what other things and how to troubleshoot so any help is much appreciated.

After I get rtorrent and rtgui up and running I'll write an article on my blog and on this forum so that others don't have to go through same pain as I did

---------- Post added at 10:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------

I tried compiling libtorrent and rtorrent from svn, and I got libtorrent compiled and installed without problems, but while "make" for rtorrent this is the error that breaks compilation process:

/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [rtorrent] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent'
make: *** [all] Error 2

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:47 PM ----------

I get same issue when trying to compile rtorrent 0.8.8 from source, probably some dependency issue but can't track it down...


/usr/bin/ld: libsub_root.a(thread_base.o): undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [rtorrent] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[leigh123linux]

In Fedora 14 rtorrent is currently at version 0.8.7, and it is compiled with --with-xmlrpc-c option (I looked into RPM .spec configuration file).

So stock rtorrent in fedora should work with rtgui or any other webui, but mine crashes

When I start rtorrent I get these messages in rtorrent:
(15:37:52) Using 'epoll' based polling.
(15:37:52) Using 'epoll' based polling.
(15:37:52) XMLRPC initialized with 836 functions.
(15:37:52) The SCGI socket is bound to a specific network device yet
may still pose a security risk, consider using 'scgi_local'.
(15:37:52) Closed XMLRPC log.

.rtorrent.rc has this line added:
scgi_port = localhost:5000

and when I try to connect to http://localhost/rtgui rtorrent just crashes:

rtorrent crash:
Stack dump not enabled.
Aborted (core dumped)

If I comment scgi_port line I can't connect to rtorrent but is also doesn't crash (obviously), I don't know what other things and how to troubleshoot so any help is much appreciated.

After I get rtorrent and rtgui up and running I'll write an article on my blog and on this forum so that others don't have to go through same pain as I did

---------- Post added at 10:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------

I tried compiling libtorrent and rtorrent from svn, and I got libtorrent compiled and installed without problems, but while "make" for rtorrent this is the error that breaks compilation process:

/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [rtorrent] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent-svn/trunk/rtorrent'
make: *** [all] Error 2

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:47 PM ----------

I get same issue when trying to compile rtorrent 0.8.8 from source, probably some dependency issue but can't track it down...


/usr/bin/ld: libsub_root.a(thread_base.o): undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [rtorrent] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ion/bin/rtorrent/rtorrent-0.8.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2

The error is caused by changes to gold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_%28linker%29

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Featur...icitDSOLinking

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unders...gDSOLinkChange


Try

env LDFLAGS="-lpthread" ./configure

or there might be a configure option to do it



Edit here's the patch used in fedora's rtorrent package

[Valent]

Thank you, after using "env LDFLAGS="-lpthread" ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c" rtorrent finally compiled, and runs great. Even better is that rtgui doesn't crash rttorrent as it does 0.8.7 version.

I'll ask rtorrent maintainers to update rtorrent package to 0.8.8 version so this issue is fixed

[Valent]

After reporting this issue as a bug rtorrent devels updated rpm package and it will soon be in F14 repos! #win

[Valent]

Now you can just install latest rtorrent via yum and everything works!