[Xapian-devel] Starting to work for xapian

Rajan Walia rajanwalia92 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 16:03:19 GMT 2012


Hello everyone,
   I wanted to know how do we use and test xapian as a standalone program.
Thanks,
Rajan

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Rajan Walia <rajanwalia92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So for replacing this with OpenBSD getopt are we going to statically
> compile the newer one and replace the gnu getopt completely (also the
> GNU C Library one) and for that I will have to change the files in
> xapian-core/common/getopt.cc right?
> And also currently the getopt.cc is modified by Olly for compilation
> with C++, so what will be the right path for me to go ahead?
> I have compiled the source from the bleeding edge git repo and have
> also familiarized myself with the usage of gnu getopt by building a
> sample application.
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> wrote:
>> On 16/02/2012 22:48, Olly Betts wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:04:13PM +0000, Charlie Hull wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 16/02/2012 13:49, Rajan Walia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For starting I want to work on this:
>>>>> Replace getopt() with popt() or similar
>>>>>
>>>>> A longer term aim is to be able to relicense Xapian under a more
>>>>> liberal licence.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid there are considerably more things to do before this can be
>>>> considered: see http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/CommercialLicence for
>>>> more details.
>>>
>>>
>>> Rajan is just quoting the above from the wiki.  Just because there are
>>> many things to do to achieve something doesn't mean it is pointless to
>>> try to do one of them, especially as one aim of doing so is to get
>>> familiar with the code.
>>
>>
>> Apologies Rajan, I didn't spot this.
>>
>>
>> C
>>
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