[Xapian-devel] Contributing to Xapian

[Manu Gupta]

Hi

I am on Debian verson 7.7, GCC 4.7.2 and make 3.8.1.

I cloned the code :
git clone https://github.com/v-hasu/xapian
git checkout gsoc2014-evaluation
rm xapian-letor/nobootstrap
./bootstrap
./configure --no-documentation
make CXXFLAGS='-w'

and I get a different set of errors
---
ranker.cc: In member function 'std::string Xapian::Ranker::get_cwd()':
ranker.cc:80:36: error: 'getcwd' was not declared in this scope
make[3]: *** [ranker.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/manugupt1/han/xapian/xapian-letor'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/manugupt1/han/xapian/xapian-letor'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/manugupt1/han/xapian/xapian-letor'
---


I am also trying Hanxiao's method but am not able to find aclocal / libtool
/ autoconf / autoheader / automake --add-missing  in my os. Can you tell me
which packages do I need to install ?

One option might be, I can try solving this error one by one in a branch of
mine to get xapian-letor to a stage where it can be built directly and we
will no longer require a .nobootstrap option while I get familiar with the
code base too. What thoughts do you have on this?



Best Regards
Manu Gupta

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>
wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2014, at 17:12, Hanxiao Sun <sunhanxiaoisme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use Ubuntu12.04, GNU Make 3.81 and I am not sure if I use some special
> configure options.
>
> Version of GCC (or other compiler) would be useful too.
>
> > The commands I use after clone the repo are as follows:
> >
> > cd xapian
> > ./bootstarp
> > ./configure
> > make
> >
> > cd xapian-letor
> > aclocal -I ../xapian-core/m4
> > libtoolize --force
> > autoconf
> > autoheader
> > automake --add-missing
> > ./configure
> > make
> >
> > Is this normal?
>
> Not entirely. I’d just do:
>
> $ cd xapian
> $ rm xapian-letor/.nobootstrap
> $ ./bootstrap
> $ ./configure
> $ make
>
> which presents slightly different options to what you’ve done (in
> particular yours doesn’t enable maintainer mode, I think), and so may
> explain the warnings. Manu, you could try the above instructions and see if
> the warnings go away.
>
> J
>
> --
>  James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
>  xapian.org
>
>
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