Issue of building xapian-core on UBUNTU

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 12:19:00PM +0300, Александр wrote:
> Hi all. I tried to build xapian-core on UBUNTU by following instructions
> from site. If to be more exact, I made actions:
> 
> 1) cloning project
> 2) installing zlib
> 2) cd to <xapian-name>/xapian-core
> 3) execute command autoconf (executed successfully)
> 4) execute command ./configure (shows big log, but I didn't find any errors
> from it)
> 5) execute command make

That's not how you build from git - follow the instructions at
https://xapian.org/bleeding :

 1. git clone https://git.xapian.org/xapian
 2. Read the "Building from git" section in xapian-core/HACKING - in particular make sure you have the required tools installed.
 3. In the newly created xapian directory, run the command ./bootstrap - this will run various developer tools to produce a source tree like you'd get from unpacking release source tarballs.
 4. bootstrap will create a top level configure script, which you can use to configure the whole source tree together.
 5. If you're looking to do development work on Xapian, then the rest of xapian-core/HACKING is recommended reading. 

Step 3 is important.

Which "instructions from site" did you follow?  If there's conflicting
information on xapian.org we should fix it.

If these are instructions on a different site, there might not be much we can
do (see also https://xkcd.com/386/).

Cheers,
    Olly