build with geocouch plugin failing on centos 6.3

[breathe]

build-couchdb with geocouch plugin is producing a non-functioning couchdb for me on centos-6.3 ...

building with

PLUGIN="git://github.com/couchbase/geocouch origin/couchdb1.2.x"
rake plugin="$PLUGIN"

$ ./build-couchdb/build/bin/couchdb
Apache CouchDB 1.2.1 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
[error] [<0.93.0>] {error_report,<0.31.0>,
{<0.93.0>,supervisor_report,
[{supervisor,{local,couch_secondary_services}},
{errorContext,start_error},
{reason,
{'EXIT',
{undef,
[{couch_spatial,start_link,[],[]},
{supervisor,do_start_child,2,
[{file,"supervisor.erl"},{line,303}]},
{supervisor,start_children,3,
[{file,"supervisor.erl"},{line,287}]},
{supervisor,init_children,2,
[{file,"supervisor.erl"},{line,253}]},
{gen_server,init_it,6,
[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,304}]},
{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,
[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,227}]}]}}},
{offender,
[{pid,undefined},
{name,spatial_manager},
{mfargs,{couch_spatial,start_link,[]}},
{restart_type,permanent},
{shutdown,brutal_kill},
{child_type,worker}]}]}}
{"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_app,start,[normal,["/home/ncohen/build-dryit/rhel6/build-couchdb/build-couchdb/build/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/home/ncohen/build-dryit/rhel6/build-couchdb/build-couchdb/build/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,shutdown}},[{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,[{file,"/home/ncohen/build-dryit/rhel6/build-couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/couchdb/src/couchdb/couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,98}]},{application_master,start_it_old,4,[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,274}]}]}}}}}},[{couch,start,0,[{file,"/home/ncohen/build-dryit/rhel6/build-couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/couchdb/src/couchdb/couch.erl"},{line,18}]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating in do_boot ()

[breathe]

a closer look shows that this is the same problem reported here:

#60

It doesn't seem very 'batteries included' for this to be a problem with the build ... The only workaround I could figure that keeps compatibility with other built components (eg init.d script) -- is to move the couchdb script to _couchhack and generate a wrapper which calls couchdb with the correct ERL_FLAGS set ...

Can there be a better way ...?

[jhs]

Yes, this is a pain point.

I will merge in the changes I made long ago which make CouchDB search for its own plugins.