[Xapian-discuss] Compiling xapian on Ubuntu Breezy

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> It's not hard to compile the normal xapian stuff but if you download
> svn it can be tricky to compile the complete release.
> 
> 1)   Get swig 1.3.26 or higher from swig.org.  The Breezy packages are too old.

Unless you're actually wanting to do development work on Xapian, I'd
generally recommend using the SVN snapshots from here:

http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/

They're already bootstrapped so you don't need the right versions of the
autotools or SWIG installed.  Plus they aren't generated if SVN trunk is
too broken to bootstrap, which is rare, but annoying if you're just
wanting to try out something newer than the last release.

The only real downside is that you need to download a whole new set of
tarballs, rather than being able to incrementally update using SVN.

> The rest is only needed for cvssearch.
> 
> 2)  `apt-get install libdb4.1++-dev`
> 3)   Download the recent pstream.h from pstreams.sf.net
>       Replace cvssearch/db/pstream.h and cvssearch/map/process/pstream.h

Why's this needed?  Is the older pstream.h not usable with modern C++
compilers or something like that?

> 4)  I couldn't figure out where uint_to_string() came from so I
> rewrote it, and there was another typo in that same file.  The patch
> is attached.

Thanks, I'll apply it.

Beware that cvssearch isn't really release quality at present (as you
may have guessed...)

Cheers,
    Olly