Xapian discuss - Aug 2008 - xapian installation on Linux Gentoo

Hello,

anybody out there has experience and can give me some tips about installing
latest xapian (and PHP bindings) on linux Gentoo?

I'm completely new on Gentoo an somewhat lost about the best way to install
xapian on that machine: perhaps there is a better way than ./configure
&&
make && make install.

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Alessandro Pasotti
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:54:22PM +0200, Alessandro Pasotti
wrote:
> anybody out there has experience and can give me some tips about installing
> latest xapian (and PHP bindings) on linux Gentoo?
Gentoo Portage has xapian-core and xapian-bindings - there are links on
our download page:

http://xapian.org/download

Currently they appear to have 1.0.6 for both.
> I'm completely new on Gentoo an somewhat lost about the best way to
install
> xapian on that machine: perhaps there is a better way than ./configure
&&
> make && make install.
I'm no expert on Gentoo, but generally whether to use a package or build
from source depends on your needs, and your general feelings about packages.
In this case, whether you need Omega would seem to be a factor.

Cheers,
    Olly