Xapian discuss - Nov 2005 - Using flint backend

I have a shell script that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

DIR="$1"

for i in `ls /Volume/Topix/${DIR}`; do
   WEBDIR="/${DIR}/${i}"
   echo "Indexing ${WEBDIR}"
   /usr/local/bin/omindex -d ignore -D /Volume/Xapian/topix/${DIR} -U 
${WEBDIR} /Volume/Topix${WEBDIR} >/dev/null
done

If i've been reading correct, all I have to do is add:

XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT="true"

to the top of this script, and any new databases that are built using 
omindex will be using the flint backend, is this correct?

TIA, love Xapian, it's very ++.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:39:49PM -0600, Tony Lambiris
wrote:
> If i've been reading correct, all I have to do is add:
> 
> XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT="true"
> 
> to the top of this script, and any new databases that are built using 
> omindex will be using the flint backend, is this correct?
Any non-empty value works.

But you'll also need to "export XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT" so that the
shell
passes the value to subprocesses.

Alternatively you can explicitly write the call to omindex like so:

XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT=1 /usr/local/bin/omindex [...]

Then the variable is only set for omindex and you don't need to use
export.

Cheers,
    Olly