[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 0.9.5, Cygwin and xapian-config

Patrick Mézard pmezard at gmail.com
Mon May 8 17:47:04 BST 2006


Hello,

I am trying to get Xapian 0.9.5 compiled on Win32 using Cygwin. I use 
the same configuration I described in 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/2071/focus=2071>.

The "make" command failed when trying to build "xapian-config". "make" 
outputs:
"""
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status xapian-config
config.status: creating xapian-config
"""
then seems to never terminate (I let it run for twenty minutes before 
killing it). The task manager shows that "sed" is taking all the 
processing time and FileMon does not show any specific filesystem 
activity. I am stuck at this point. I tried to comment the library 
dependency tracking function added since xapian 0.9.2 to no avail.

Besides, compared to the compilation of 0.9.2, I have the following remarks:
- The precedence of win32 find.exe over cygwin one is correctly detected 
by configure.
- There is a problem when generating "config.h": instead of being left 
commented, the symbol SNPRINTF is defined to "no" which breaks macro 
expansion in many places. Commenting it deals with the issue.
- I still have to add dependencies via the BACKENDS_LA variable (see my 
previous post linked above).

Thank you for any idea about the sed pseudo-infinite loop.

--
Patrick Mézard




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