[Xapian-discuss] php bindings

[R. Mattes]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 18:20 +0530, durga bidaye wrote:
> Hey Olly
> 
> I think i had indeed copied xapian.so by hand frm somwhere..tho i dnt
> remember frm where. 

A pretty cool way to mess up your box. 

> n that means the problem is not with finding the shared library. the
> problem is with installin xapian bindings. i reinstalled xapian
> bindings n on goin to folder /usr/lib/php4/20050606/ i saw that there
> was no xapian.so in it.
> 
> So then,i saved xapian-bindings in folder: xapian-core
> 
> and installed using just the folowing commands.
> 
> ./configure
> make 
> make install
> 
> but found that xapian.so was not present in /usr/lib/php4/20050606

'/usr/lib/...' is definitely _not_ the place where locally installed
software/libraries should go.

> then i went thru the installation doc n found that we had to pass the
> path to xapian-config to ./configure
> 
> hence i did the following
> 
> ./configure XAPIAN_CONFIG=/home/jana/xapian-core-0.9.4/
> 
> but at the end of configure i got following error:
> 
> checking for xapian-config... /home/jana/xapian-core-0.9.4/
> checking /home/jana/xapian-core-0.9.4/ works... configure: error:
> `/home/jana/xapian-core-0.9.4/ --ltlibs --cxxflags' doesn't work,
> aborting

XAPIAN_CONFIG expects the path to the xapian-config script, _not_
a directory path!

> Still i went ahead, n did make as well as make install.
> 
> but again found that xapian.so was not present
> in /usr/lib/php4/20050606/
> 
> Now why isnt xapian-bindings gettin installed?

Maybe it's in /usr/local/lib/php.... ?

 HTH Ralf Mattes

> doubtfire40008 at gmail.com
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On 3/17/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:06:43PM +0530, durga bidaye wrote:
>         > PHP Warning:  Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library 
>         > '/usr/lib/php4/20050606/xapian.so'
>         - /usr/lib/php4/20050606/xapian.so:
>         > undefined symbol: tclStubsPtr in Unknown on line 0
>         >
>         > wat is this tclStubsPtr thing?
>         
>         I don't know, but it sounds like something to do with tcl
>         rather than 
>         PHP!  Just to check, you didn't copy xapian.so by hand and
>         accidentally
>         take it from the tcl subdirectory instead of the php one?
>         
>         > > What does this report:
>         > >
>         > > php-config --extension-dir 
>         >
>         > this command doesnt work on my sys..does not mean my version
>         of php is too
>         > old fr php bindings??
>         
>         Erm, if that doesn't work I don't really understand how you've
>         managed
>         to build and install the PHP bindings - configure uses this to
>         find 
>         where PHP is installed...
>         
>         When you say "this command doesnt work", how does it fail?
>         
>         Did you do anything unusual to build the bindings (anything
>         other than
>         ./configure / make / make install)? 
>         
>         Cheers,
>             Olly
> 
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