Xapian discuss - Apr 2009 - problems installing the perl modules

Hello Xapianistas ,

I am having troubles installing Search::Xapian from CPAN on
a debian 3.1 box with the libs from http://www.xapian.org/debian.

I ran the following - 

perl -MCPAN -e'install Search::Xapian'

The install chugs along hapily until the following line..

/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -C++
-typemap /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap perlobject.map
-typemap typemap  Xapian.xs > Xapian.xsc && mv Xapian.xsc Xapian.c
g++ -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"1.0.11.0\"
-DXS_VERSION\"1.0.11.0\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE"  
Xapian.c
Xapian.c: In function `void 
   XS_Search__Xapian__QueryParser_parse_query(PerlInterpreter*, CV*)':
Xapian.c:3538: error: `FLAG_DEFAULT' is not a member of type `
   Xapian::QueryParser'
XS/Query.xs: In function `void 
   XS_Search__Xapian__Query_new3range(PerlInterpreter*, CV*)':
XS/Query.xs:36: error: invalid conversion from `valueno' to `const
char*'
XS/Query.xs:36: error:   initializing argument 1 of
`std::basic_string<_CharT, 
   _Traits, _Alloc>::basic_string(const _CharT*, const _Alloc&) [with
_CharT = 
   char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc
std::allocator<char>]'
Xapian.xs: In function `void boot_Search__Xapian(PerlInterpreter*,
CV*)':
Xapian.xs:178: error: `OP_VALUE_GE' is not a member of type
`Xapian::Query'
Xapian.xs:179: error: `OP_VALUE_LE' is not a member of type
`Xapian::Query'
Xapian.xs:201: error: `FLAG_DEFAULT' is not a member of type `
   Xapian::QueryParser'
make: *** [Xapian.o] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

is the version on CPAN out of sync with your packages or have i confused
it somehow ? any help would be greatly appreciated.

To me it would make sense to have an apt candidate for the Perl module 
in your repo and i'd be happy to have a go at maintaining that build if
given some help to get started.

Toodle-pip
Amias

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:08:48PM +0100, Amias Channer
wrote:
> The install chugs along hapily until the following line..
> 
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -C++
> -typemap /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap perlobject.map
> -typemap typemap  Xapian.xs > Xapian.xsc && mv Xapian.xsc
Xapian.c
> g++ -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
> -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"1.0.11.0\"
-DXS_VERSION> \"1.0.11.0\" -fPIC
"-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE"   Xapian.c
> Xapian.c: In function `void 
>    XS_Search__Xapian__QueryParser_parse_query(PerlInterpreter*, CV*)':
> Xapian.c:3538: error: `FLAG_DEFAULT' is not a member of type `
>    Xapian::QueryParser'
You're building against an incompatible version of xapian-core.

You should have got a warning about this when you ran:

perl Makefile.PL

If you didn't, that's a bug - could you open a ticket with the exact
output of "perl Makefile.PL" if so.

This is only a warning as it often works OK (it's generally only a
problem when a newer Search::Xapian wraps a new xapian-core feature)
and it's annoying for users to have to modify Makefile.PL to get
compatible combinations to work.
> To me it would make sense to have an apt candidate for the Perl module 
> in your repo and i'd be happy to have a go at maintaining that build if
> given some help to get started.
Thanks for the offer, but we are actually in the process of moving away
from maintaining our own package repo on xapian.org to using
backports.org and Ubuntu PPAs.  For now, the simplest thing to do is use
the packages from debian, or download an older version of Search::Xapian
which matches your xapian-core.

Cheers,
    Olly