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FROM amazonlinux:2
#FROM amazonlinux:2023

# upgrade everything
RUN yum -y update && yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum

# begin: install watchman

# # Unfortunately, this repo has been removed
# RUN curl -L https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:crantila:watchman/CentOS_7/home:crantila:watchman.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/watchman.repo
# RUN yum -y install watchman
# RUN mkdir /var/run/watchman
# RUN chmod 2777 /var/run/watchman

# # Installing the binary fails due to old glibc:
# # watchman: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by watchman)
# # watchman: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by watchman)
# RUN curl -OL https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/download/v2023.04.10.00/watchman-v2023.04.10.00-linux.zip
# RUN yum install -y unzip
# RUN unzip watchman-*-linux.zip
# RUN mkdir -p /usr/local/{bin,lib} /usr/local/var/run/watchman
# RUN cp watchman-v*.*.*.*-linux/bin/* /usr/local/bin
# RUN cp watchman-v*.*.*.*-linux/lib/* /usr/local/lib
# RUN chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/watchman
# RUN chmod 2777 /usr/local/var/run/watchman
# RUN yum install -y openssl11

# # Compiling from source fails due to: ‘TCP_ULP’ was not declared in this scope
# RUN yum install -y git
# RUN git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git
# RUN yum install -y python3 python-devel
# RUN yum install -y cargo clang make which
# RUN yum install -y openssl11 openssl11-devel
# RUN yum install -y m4
# RUN yum install -y help2man
# RUN yum install -y perl-Thread-Queue perl-Data-Dumper
# RUN echo "(cd watchman;time ./autogen.sh)" >/root/.bash_history
# RUN (cd watchman;./autogen.sh)

# # Installing Watchman through Homebrew takes forever (7min), blows up image size (3.5GB instead of 185MB), and produces a non-functional executable
# RUN yum install -y git tar
# RUN /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
# RUN eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)" ; brew install watchman
# RUN ln -s /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/watchman* /usr/local/bin/

# In the end, I had to extract the watchman binary from the old container, and use that :(
COPY watchman/* /usr/bin/
# If I want to use watchman-make, I also need to install pywatchman
RUN yum -y install pip gcc python-devel && pip install pywatchman && yum -y remove pip gcc python-devel && yum -y autoremove && yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum

# end: install watchman

# a script to test that watchman is correctly installed and functioning
RUN echo ./test-watchman.sh >/root/.bash_history
COPY test-watchman.sh .