Building xapian-bindings

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Tue Jan 17 05:00:42 GMT 2017


On 16 January 2017 at 14:21, Samuel Williams wrote:
> The solution I found which avoids this problem all together is to move
> the line `if DOCUMENTATION_RULES` to line 101 of ruby/Makefile.am
> which avoids building documentation unless you request it.

That change would mean that the documentation generated by rdoc won't be
built and installed.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 02:22:21PM +1300, Samuel Williams wrote:
> Oh, by the way, just running `make all` works fine too, which is what
> I am now doing in the gem.. but fixing the makefile would retain the
> existing working behaviour of `make clean all` which was fine in 1.2.x

Aha, the problem is that this file shouldn't standardly be removed by
"make clean" - I've pushed 28df9b802d6ccc6dfccbe4b3d41121a9efc7912f to
fix this on master and will backport for 1.4.3.

Cheers,
    Olly



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