A few of my hosts have old versions of BOINC in their repositories. So I’d like to compile from source.

Unfortunately it tries to compile the gui client too (I assume that’s why it’s asking for WxWidgets) - is there a way I can compile the cmd line client only with the make process? Literally all of my 12 hosts are headless.

./configure --disable-server  --disable-manager

See https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CompileClient and https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BuildSystem for documentation

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Thanks, can’t believe I’ve missed that.

So close. It’s choking on install:

chmod +x boinc-client
chmod: cannot access 'boinc-client': No such file or directory
Makefile:556: recipe for target 'install-exec-hook' failed
make[6]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc/client/scripts'
Makefile:498: recipe for target 'install-exec-am' failed
make[5]: *** [install-exec-am] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc/client/scripts'
Makefile:449: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc/client/scripts'
Makefile:646: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc'
Makefile:945: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc'
Makefile:1089: recipe for target 'stage' failed
make[1]: *** [stage] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/coding/boinc'
Makefile:564: recipe for target '../../../stage' failed
make: *** [../../../stage] Error 2

Well I can manually copy the binary and it seems to work. Don’t think my projects are happy...

Should have read up on this first instead of just diving in. Now I can’t fix the package to the original version.

Guess I’ll come back to this another time. 11 hosts is fine...

Ok, I think it’s actually working fine now.

I’m gojng to assume upgrading to bleeding-edge dev versions is frowned upon?

It's encouraged, but we do ask you to participate in bug-hunting and catching problems. The bleeding edge is where the mistakes are made and (hopefully) caught.

What distro are you running? Don't they have boinc-client in their repo or did you want to compile your own?

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MarkJ

Raspbian Stretch Lite, seems to be stuck on 7.6.33

Raspbian Stretch Lite, seems to be stuck on 7.6.33

You can use the standard Debian repo assuming its a Pi2 or Pi3. The minimum Debian support is an ARMv7 processor which is why you need a Pi2 or better.

See here for how to do it. You can then use the boinc-client from stretch-backports, which as I type this is 7.10.2. The 7.12 will probably hit stretch-backports in a week or two.

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MarkJ

That's really helpful, thank you. I'm on a Pi3