[Xapian-discuss] FIXMEs in Search::Xapian

[Tim Brody]

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:08 +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:18:24AM +0100, Tim Brody wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 20:50 +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > > If you run the top level bootstrap script in a checked out tree, then you just
> > > need to run configure --with-perl (just adding it when you run the top-level
> > > configure is simplest - other modules will ignore it with a warning).
> > > 
> > > HACKING already documents using bootstrap.
> > > 
> > > I'll add a note about perl not being auto-enabled currently.
> > 
> > From a clean copy of SVN:
> > ./bootstrap
> > ./configure --with-perl
> > make
> > make dist
> > ... /bin/bash: ./doxy2swig.py: Permission denied
> 
> The problem is that Python is needed to run this file, but configure isn't
> checking for Python because you said "--with-perl".  So PYTHON is unset and
> $(PYTHON) ./doxy2swig.py expands to ./doxy2swig.py in make.
> 
> I've checked in a fix to check for Python in maintainer mode which should
> fix this.

I got there eventually by installing all the other bindings
dependencies.

> > ... make[2]: *** No rule to make target `php/xapian_wrap.cc', needed by
> > `distdir'. Stop.
> 
> This is a bug in php/Makefile.am, which is masked when the PHP bindings are
> enabled.  I've committed a fix for that too.
> 
> > > http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/
> > 
> > Those don't appear to include Perl in xapian-bindings.
> 
> It does for me - I checked svn15008.

It needs adding to the .spec file - attached is a first attempt.

Would I be correct in thinking the Database factory methods haven't been
implemented in Perl SWIG?

/Tim.
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