[Xapian-discuss] Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory

[David Spencer]

How embarrassing - everything magically works now - and I'm not sure what I
did differently last
night. I have verified on an Ubuntu Linux system and the 2 Macs I referred
to in my mail. On the Ubuntu
I started cleanly and everything worked first time.

On both Macs I removed the "untar dir" and started over i.e.

rm -rf xapian-core-1.0.7
tar zxf xapian-core*.gz
cd xapian-core-1.0.7
./configure
make
sudo make install

and with the bindings I did the same though with './configure --with-python'
and it all worked first time.

So sorry for the noise & confusion, things are cool now.

thx,
  Dave


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:31:39PM -0700, David Spencer wrote:
> > Briefly: when I try to build xapian-bindings the make command fails with:
> > "Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory"
> >
> > When I run configure these are the last few lines:
> > I tried running "./configure" and "./configure --without-java
> --without-tcl
> > --without-tcl8 --without-csharp --without-perl --with-python
>
> If you just want Python, you only need "--with-python".
>
> If you explicitly ask for particular bindings, you will only get those
> you ask for.  If you don't specify, configure will probe what languages
> support is available for and enable those.
>
> Requiring users to explicitly disable every language they didn't want
> would be clumsy - it's O(n) in the number of other languages supported,
> and it would mean packaging scripts for xapian-bindings would need
> fixing for every new language supported.
>
> Many people seem to misunderstand how this works, but it seems the sanest
> approach to me, and it is documented (in INSTALL).  If the documentation
> could be clearer, please suggest how.
>
> There isn't even a "--without-perl" or "--without-tcl8" option (and you
> didn't pass "--without-ruby"...)
>
> > config.status: error: cannot find input file: tcl8/Makefile.in
>
> As James says, your source tree is incomplete for some reason.  You need
> to work out why.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>