[Xapian-discuss] PHP bindings on a Mac

[Francis Irving]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:50:53PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:43:40PM +0200, rm@fabula.de wrote:
> 
> > > You can check this by entering php4/xapian/, and running "libtoolize -f 
> > > -c".  This should create a config.sub.
> > > 
> > > Check that you've got libtool version 1.5 (or later) installed.
> > 
> > That's i workarround. libtoolize shouldn't be neccessary for the end user -
> > that command should be run during the package creation (-> i.e. by the
> > developer). 
> 
> The problem is that phpize does far too much in one go, making it
> unpleassant to use it within a proper autotools system. Really, the
> PHP bindings are built in about the worst possible way, but short of
> replicating most of the work phpize does into our own build system
> it's going to be difficult to avoid that :-(

My Mac using friend has got it building - thanks to all your help.

He's discovered that "libtoolize on mac is glibtoolize".  Have asked
for more details of exactly what he did to fix it...

Francis