Xapian devel - Nov 2017 - Potential GSOC student interested in contributing to The Xapian project

Hi!

I'm currently a final year student of Informatics Institute of Technology
Sri Lanka affiliated with the University of Westminster, a successful GSOC
2017 participant
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6522320890888192>.
Witnessing the usage of machine learning and information retrieval I'm keen
to contribute to The Xapian project thus, enhancing my skills in machine
learning and other similar areas of interest. Could you kindly suggest how
I could get started?

Regards,
Kumaranath Fernando
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Hi!

I was attempting to build the source just when ran ./bootstrap command
after following steps 1,2 in the documentation
<https://xapian.org/bleeding#git> I encounter an error as shown below.

Making install in .
> make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
>   MAKEINFO doc/libtool.info
> /home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6/build-aux/missing: line 81:
> makeinfo: command not found
> WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
>          You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
>          any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
>          You might want to install the Texinfo package:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
>          The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
>          using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you
might
>          want to install GNU make:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
> Makefile:1359: recipe for target 'doc/libtool.info' failed
> make[2]: *** [doc/libtool.info] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
> Makefile:1606: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
> Makefile:1908: recipe for target 'install' failed
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> Bootstrap failed

What could I have possibly done wrong here?. Any help is appreciated!


Regards,
Kumaranath Fernando

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Kumaranath Fernando <
kumaranathfernando at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently a final year student of Informatics Institute of
Technology
> Sri Lanka affiliated with the University of Westminster, a successful GSOC
> 2017 participant
> <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6522320890888192>.
> Witnessing the usage of machine learning and information retrieval I'm
keen
> to contribute to The Xapian project thus, enhancing my skills in machine
> learning and other similar areas of interest. Could you kindly suggest how
> I could get started?
>
> Regards,
> Kumaranath Fernando
>
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Hi Kumaranath,

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:46:08AM +0530, Kumaranath Fernando
wrote:
> I was attempting to build the source just when ran ./bootstrap command
> after following steps 1,2 in the documentation
> <https://xapian.org/bleeding#git> I encounter an error as shown
below.
> 
> Making install in .
> > make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
> >   MAKEINFO doc/libtool.info
> > /home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6/build-aux/missing: line 81:
> > makeinfo: command not found
> > WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
> >          You should only need it if you modified a '.texi'
file, or
> >          any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
> >          You might want to install the Texinfo package:
> >          <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
> >          The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
> >          using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case
you might
> >          want to install GNU make:
> >          <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
> > Makefile:1359: recipe for target 'doc/libtool.info' failed
> > make[2]: *** [doc/libtool.info] Error 127
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
> > Makefile:1606: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> > make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/k2/GSOC/xapian/BUILD/libtool-2.4.6'
> > Makefile:1908: recipe for target 'install' failed
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> > Bootstrap failed
> 
> What could I have possibly done wrong here?. Any help is appreciated!
Do you have "makeinfo" installed?  The error suggests not:
> > makeinfo: command not found
> > WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
You can check with the "which" command which will output the location
of
the command if it's present, or nothing if it isn't:

which makeinfo

If it isn't installed and you're using Linux, then it's part of
texinfo
(on Debian or Ubuntu you need to install the texinfo package, but the
package name may be different for other distros).

Looks like texinfo is currently missing from the list of packages
required to build from git, so I suspect this is the issue.

If makeinfo is installed, then perhaps you have a buggy "make" command
and should try installing GNU make, as the rest of the output suggests.
If you're using Linux, the default make is GNU make.

Cheers,
    Olly