CouchDocs

$ sudo pkg_add apache-couchdb

$ cd /usr/ports/databases/apache-couchdb/
$ sudo make install

<!-- # pre-requisite: spidermonkey -->

cd /usr/ports/lang/spidermonkey
make
make install
make clean
<!-- # prerequisite: icu -->

cd /usr/ports/textproc/icu4c
make
make install
make clean
<!-- # pre-requisite: erlang -->

cd
pkg_add erlang
<!-- # yes, but i would prefer the latest erlang -->

pkg_add wget
pkg_add gmake
mkdir /usr/tools
cd /usr/tools
mkdir erlang
cd erlang
wget <a href="http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz">http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz</a>     tar zxf <a href="otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz">otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz</a>     mkdir otp_R12B-5
cd otp_src_R12B-5
export LANG=C
./configure --help
./configure --prefix=/usr/tools/erlang/otp_R12B-5 --with-ssl
gmake
gmake install
PATH=/usr/tools/erlang/otp_R12B-5/bin:$PATH
cd /usr/tools
mkdir couchdb
cd couchdb
<!-- # the following url is a copy/paste from what -->
<!-- # http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/incubator/couchdb/0.8.1-incubating/apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating.tar.gz -->
<!-- # gave as a link -->

wget <a href="http://mir2.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/incubator/couchdb/0.8.1-incubating/apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating.tar.gz">http://mir2.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/incubator/couchdb/0.8.1-incubating/apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating.tar.gz</a>     tar zxf <a href="apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating.tar.gz">apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating.tar.gz</a>     mkdir couchdb-0.8.1
cd apache-couchdb-0.8.1-incubating
./configure --prefix=/usr/tools/couchdb/couchdb-0.8.1
gmake
gmake install
cd ../couchdb-0.8.1/bin
./couchdb&
cd /tmp
wget localhost:5984
cat index.html