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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Big Switch Networks, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+# License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+# permissions and limitations under the License.
+
+SOURCE=$(pwd)
+WORKSPACE=${SOURCE}/workspace
+VIRTUALENV=${WORKSPACE}/ve
+TOOLS=${WORKSPACE}/tools
+DEPS=${SOURCE}/deps
+
+DJANGO_PKG=django-nonrel-20111024-be48c152abc6.zip
+DJANGO_TOOLBOX_PKG=djangotoolbox-20111024-957ea5f68040.zip
+#CASSANDRA_VERSION=1.0.10
+#CASSANDRA_PKG=apache-cassandra-${CASSANDRA_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
+THRIFT_VERSION=0.7.0
+THRIFT_PKG=thrift-${THRIFT_VERSION}.tar.gz
+
+rm -rf ${WORKSPACE}
+mkdir -p ${TOOLS}
+
+unzip -q -d ${TOOLS}/.tmp ${DEPS}/${DJANGO_PKG}
+cp ${DEPS}/${DJANGO_PKG} ${TOOLS}/
+unzip -q -d ${TOOLS}/.tmp ${DEPS}/${DJANGO_TOOLBOX_PKG}
+cp ${DEPS}/${DJANGO_TOOLBOX_PKG} ${TOOLS}/
+#tar -z -x -C ${TOOLS} -f ${DEPS}/${CASSANDRA_PKG}
+#mv ${TOOLS}/apache-cassandra-${CASSANDRA_VERSION} ${TOOLS}/cassandra
+tar -z -x -C ${TOOLS} -f ${DEPS}/${THRIFT_PKG}
+mv ${TOOLS}/thrift-${THRIFT_VERSION} ${TOOLS}/thrift
+
+rm -rf ${VIRTUALENV} python
+virtualenv ${VIRTUALENV} --system-site-packages
+mkdir -p ${VIRTUALENV}/log
+ln -snf ${VIRTUALENV} ${WORKSPACE}/python
+ln -snf bin ${VIRTUALENV}/sbin
+source ${VIRTUALENV}/bin/activate
+(
+  cd ${TOOLS}/.tmp/django-nonrel
+  patch -p3 < ${SOURCE}/build/django-autoreload-notty.patch
+  python setup.py -q install
+)
+(
+  cd ${TOOLS}/.tmp/djangotoolbox
+  python setup.py -q install
+)
+(
+  cd ${TOOLS}/thrift
+  chmod +x ./configure
+  ./configure --with-cpp=no --with-erlang=no --with-perl=no --with-php=no --with-php_extension=no --with-ruby=no --with-haskell=no
+  ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" make -j4 all
+  cd lib/py
+  python setup.py -q sdist -f --dist-dir=${TOOLS}
+  python setup.py -q install
+)
+#(
+#  cd ${TOOLS}/cassandra/interface
+#  ${TOOLS}/thrift/compiler/cpp/thrift --gen py --gen java cassandra.thrift
+#  cd gen-py
+#  echo -e "import distutils.core\ndistutils.core.setup(name=\"cassandra-py\", version=\"${THRIFT_VERSION}\", packages=[\"cassandra\"])" >setup.py
+#  python setup.py -q sdist -f --dist-dir=${TOOLS}
+#  python setup.py -q install
+#  cd ../gen-java
+#  cp ${TOOLS}/thrift/lib/java/build/libthrift-${THRIFT_VERSION}.jar .
+#  SLF4J_JAR=`ls -1 ${TOOLS}/thrift/lib/java/build/lib | grep slf4j-api`
+#  cp ${TOOLS}/thrift/lib/java/build/lib/${SLF4J_JAR} .
+#  mkdir -p build/classes
+#  javac -d build/classes -cp "${SLF4J_JAR}:libthrift-${THRIFT_VERSION}.jar" org/apache/cassandra/thrift/*.java
+#  cd build
+#  jar cf cassandra-thrift-${CASSANDRA_VERSION}.jar -C classes org
+#  #mkdir -p ${SOURCE}/sdnplatform/lib
+#  #cp cassandra-thrift-${CASSANDRA_VERSION}.jar ${SOURCE}/sdnplatform/lib
+#)
+#sed -i.old 's#/var/lib/cassandra/#'${VIRTUALENV}'/cassandra/#;s#^rpc_address: .*#rpc_address: 0.0.0.0#;s#^partitioner: .*#partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.OrderPreservingPartitioner#' ${TOOLS}/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml
+#sed -i.old 's#/var/log/cassandra/system.log#'${VIRTUALENV}'/log/cassandra.log#' ${TOOLS}/cassandra/conf/log4j-server.properties
+#sed -i.old 's#^JMX_PORT=.*#JMX_PORT="8085"#' ${TOOLS}/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh
+#echo 'JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss160k"' >> ${TOOLS}/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh
+
+make clean
+
+echo "+++ Python virtualenv set up in ${VIRTUALENV}"
+echo "+++ To activate in the current shell, run:"
+echo "+++   source ${WORKSPACE}/ve/bin/activate"