LIttle problem when installing xapian-bindings-1.4.22

[nebulaaksum]

Hi  Olly 

Sometimes, things does not work even when I do the way you just said.  But works when I do them as root.  I have stopped using root since you alerted me about it.

 I am getting there slowly but surely.  It takes practice to know all the hooks and nooks.

I have appreciated your support and I thank you so much.

 I will keep in touch for my own benefits.

 With my best regards

Mike 



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------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 at 1:13 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:


> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 05:18:28PM +0000, nebulaaksum wrote:
> 
> > Here is what I tried:
> > 1.
> > gebreselema at system76-pc:~/myinstalls/myxapian/xapian-omega-1.4.22/xapianomegabuild$ ./configure XAPIAN_CONFIG=/usr/local/xapian-core-1.4.22/bin/xapian-config \--prefix=/usr/local/xapian-omega-1.4.22
> > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Looks like you've created a subdirectory to build in, so you need the
> path to configure to reflect that, i.e.:
> 
> ../configure ...
> 
> > I am just following the installation instruction and when that does
> > not work, I tried to do it from root.
> 
> 
> Quoting from the installation instructions in INSTALL:
> 
> Building in a separate directory
> ================================
> 
> If you wish to perform your build in a separate directory from the
> source, create and change to the build directory, and run the
> configure script (in the source directory) from the build directory,
> like so:
> 
> mkdir BUILD
> cd BUILD
> ../configure
> 
> Running the build as root won't change needing to use the correct path
> to configure. If building as root worked, you probably just ran the
> same command as root but from the source directory itself - that would
> have worked as non-root.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olly