[Xapian-discuss] ucs2 build of xapian?

[Jason Witherspoon]

Hey Olly--
 
Yup, I mean a build compatible w/my ucs2 Python.
 
Bad, bad things happen when I recompile Python as ucs4.  I mean, I can keep banging my head on it, but it's been a bleak coupla days so far.
 
I went into it a little bit in my original message (checksee), but here's a more complete rundown I sent to a Django discussion list, just fishing randomly for help:
 

Here's the problem I run into:  Xapian is compiled to work w/a Python   
that's been configured for ucs4 support (this is a manner of handling   
unicode).  Won't work w/ucs2, far as I can tell. 


When I try recompiling my Python to work w/Xapian, it breaks my   
psycopg2, which was compiled for ucs2 support. 


Okay, no problem, I blitz every instance/egg of psycopg2 & install it   
fresh on top of my new ucs4-compliant Python. 


Which lends some bizarre results-- in my best-case scenario (after   
several days of trial & error), I could get the psycopg2 module to   
load fine from IDLE, but it nonetheless still yielded non-stop   
"undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_[whatever]" errors when I tried to   
access my Django setup. 


The only place I can find these PyUnicodeUCS[2/4] modules/whatevers   
(?) is in Jython, so I clean installed that for the heck of it.  No   
dice. 


So this isn't your problem per se-- somewhere along the psycopg2 -> django (possibly via Jython/mod_apache...?) route, I simply can't get my system to play nice w/a Python ucs4 setup.  But unfortunately, at my lowly skill level (ie, not being able to recompile my entire system to work correctly), I'm having to look around for other options (PyLucene?) that will work w/my current setup.  When I'd much rather go w/Xapian.

Thanks!


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From: Olly Betts [mailto:olly at survex.com]
Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 6:35 PM
To: Jason Witherspoon
Cc: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org
Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] ucs2 build of xapian?



On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:13:52PM -0800, Jason Witherspoon wrote:
> maybe, magically, there exists a ucs2 build of Xapian floating around
> somewhere.

Umm, Xapian uses UTF-8 in those parts which actually care about
character representation.

Or do you mean a build of Xapian's Python bindings which is compatible
with your UCS-2 Python?

If so, what goes wrong if you just build the Python bindings as
distributed against your UCS-2 Python?

Cheers,
    Olly