Difficulty trying to configure and installing XAPIAN!

[José Manuel Marques]

Thanks for the help

2018-07-17 6:59 GMT+01:00 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 04:29:52PM +0100, José Manuel Marques wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to configure and install XAPIAN for hacking.
> >
> > The problem it's the current XAPIAN-Master of github it's not working.
> >
> > I try to configure the XAPIAN-CORE and he don´t recognize ./configure
> > or if I run from a build folder ../configure
>
> I already answered this same question via the bugtracker.
>
> When building from git you need to bootstrap the source tree before you
> can configure and build it.
>
> The top-level "README" directs you to the relevant documentation for how
> to do that:
>
> | If you're new to hacking on Xapian, you should probably start by
> | reading the xapian-core/HACKING file.  If you're new to Xapian
> | entirely, you should probably read the xapian-core/README file, or you
> | can find further information on our website at https://xapian.org/
> |
> | See the section "Building from git" in xapian-core/HACKING for details
> | on getting started.
>
> I'm not sure how that could really be made clearer, but if you have any
> suggestions let us know.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>