Installing Cactus (progressiveCactus)

When installing Cactus (using the progressiveCactus repository) I encountered the following issues during compiling:

1. easy_install not found Solution: Needed to remove my ~/.pydistutils.cfg

2. Dependencies/includes not being found Solution: add CXXFLAGS=-I"<install_location>/include/" and CFLAGS=-I"<install_location>/include/" to <install_location>/share/config.site

3. kyototycoon not compiling as kyotocabinet functions not found (as in issue 27) Solution: (as in my comment to the issue)entering the kyototycoon directory and running configure with different flags, then make:

   ./configure --prefix=~/software --with-kc=~/software
   
   make
   

   where ~/software is the prefix I am installing to (with subdirs bin, lib, include, man etc)

4. Various cases of -ltokyocabinet not found, or other dependencies missing in the USCS submodules stages of compilation (which use makefiles but not configure, so don’t pick up config.site) Solution: add:

   cflags += -I"/nfs/users/nfs_j/jl11/software/include/" -L/nfs/users/nfs_j/jl11/software/lib
   

   to include.mk in submodules cactus, cactus2hal, hal, pinchesAndCacti and matchingAndOrdering

Hope that helps anyone who might have been struggling with similar compile issues!