[Xapian-discuss] xapian installation on Linux Gentoo

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2008/8/12 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:54:22PM +0200, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> > anybody out there has experience and can give me some tips about
> installing
> > latest xapian (and PHP bindings) on linux Gentoo?
>
> Gentoo Portage has xapian-core and xapian-bindings - there are links on
> our download page:
>
> http://xapian.org/download
>
> Currently they appear to have 1.0.6 for both.


>
> > I'm completely new on Gentoo an somewhat lost about the best way to
> install
> > xapian on that machine: perhaps there is a better way than ./configure &&
> > make && make install.
>
> I'm no expert on Gentoo, but generally whether to use a package or build
> from source depends on your needs, and your general feelings about
> packages.
> In this case, whether you need Omega would seem to be a factor.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly


Thanks Olly,

since I  need 1.0.7 (even if I don't need Omega) I think I will go for
compilation form sources.



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