[Xapian-discuss] UTF-8 trunk, tarballs, 0.9.10?

[Andreas Marienborg]

On 15. mar. 2007, at 16.22, Richard Boulton wrote:

> Andreas Marienborg wrote:
>> Currently, the instructions lead to svn trunk, and a tarball dump  
>> from svn.
>> I am trying to use svn trunk at the moment, but I get a build- 
>> error quite early on:
>
> Just to be clear, are you using a SVN checkout, or downloading a  
> snapshot tarball and unpacking that?
>

SVN checkout, but I tried a snapshot as well.

>> Now, I have been trying to figure out what is wrong, and from what  
>> I can seem to conclude, there should be a file include/xapian/ 
>> error.h, but that file is not in svn.
>> It is however attempted included from a number of other files.
>> My question is if it should be in svn, or if something is supposed  
>> to autogenerate it. If the last, can it somehow be included in  
>> either configure or make before it is attempted used?
>
> It's an autogenerated file - generated by generate-exceptions.   
> This should be run automatically by the build system, but perhaps  
> that's failing.  If you're using a SVN checkout, I recommend re- 
> running the bootstrap script, or if you're running configure  
> manually be sure to pass the --enable-maintainer-mode flag.
>

I run bootstrap, and then I run ./configure in xapian-core. I will  
try with --enable-maintainer-mode tomorrow, and see if that helps.

> For more details, read the "Building from SVN" section of the file  
> "HACKING" in the xapian-core top-level source directory.
>

I tried, but I might have failed :) Basicly just wanted to check if  
it was indeed missing, or I was screwing something up :)


andreas