I've read through some of the documentation and was working on installing qserv. As Kian-Tat mentioned, I used the @git* instead of @dev* repo and followed through the README instructions. I got stuck during the "eups distrib install qserv" step [1] (wall of text with error included below signature).
I'm not certain if this is a dependency issue and I ran both of them, but though I'd mention it anyway. Any clues as to what the issue could be? Everything before this ran without any errors.
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eups distrib install qserv -r http://lsst-web.ncsa.illinois.edu/~fjammes/qserv
[ 1/27 ] antlr 2.7.7 done.
[ 2/27 ] doxygen 1.8.2+2 (already installed) done.
[ 3/27 ] expat 2.0.1 done.
[ 4/27 ] libevent 2.0.16-stable done.
[ 5/27 ] lua 5.1.4 done.
[ 6/27 ] mysql 5.1.65 done.
[ 7/27 ] mysqlclient 5.1.65+3 done.
[ 8/27 ] python master-gcbf93ab65b ...
Using externally provided Python 2.7.5 :: Anaconda 1.8.0 (64-bit).
[ 8/27 ] python master-gcbf93ab65b done.
[ 9/27 ] swig 2.0.12 done.
[ 10/27 ] xrootd 3.2.8-qsPatch5 done.
[ 11/27 ] zookeeper 3.4.6 done.
[ 12/27 ] boost 1.55.0.1+1 ...
***** error: from /home/vaikunth/QSERV/EupsBuildDir/Linux64/boost-1.55.0.1+1/build.log:
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/token_ids.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/wave_config_constant.o
common.mkdir bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/cpplexer
...on 1100th target...
common.mkdir bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/cpplexer/re2clex
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/cpplexer/re2clex/aq.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_defined_grammar.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_re2c_lexer.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_re2c_lexer_str.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_predef_macros.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_cpp_grammar.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_cpp_literalgrs.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.o
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/cpplexer/re2clex/cpp_re.o
gcc.archive bin.v2/libs/wave/build/gcc-4.6/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_wave.a
common.copy stage/lib/libboost_wave.a
...failed updating 2 targets...
...skipped 6 targets...
...updated 1103 targets...
+ exit -4
eups distrib: Failed to build boost-1.55.0.1+1.eupspkg: Command:
source /home/vaikunth/QSERV/eups/bin/setups.sh; export EUPS_PATH=/home/vaikunth/QSERV; (/home/vaikunth/QSERV/EupsBuildDir/Linux64/boost-1.55.0.1+1/build.sh) >> /home/vaikunth/QSERV/EupsBuildDir/Linux64/boost-1.55.0.1+1/build.log 2>&1 4>/home/vaikunth/QSERV/EupsBuildDir/Linux64/boost-1.55.0.1+1/build.msg
exited with code 252
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