Xapian discuss - May 2012 - Building php5-xapian on Ubuntu 12.04 Server x64

As Xapian's been dropped from the Ubuntu repositories, I'm attempting to
build my own .deb from the instructions here:

 

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/8855

 

http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/howto-build-your-own-binaries-of-ph
p-xapian-bindings-for-debian/

 

I can only get things to progress beyond the first few seconds by leaving
out 'rm debian/control', but if I do, it looks as if the Python and Ruby
bindings are building and passing their versions of smoketest correctly.

 

However, the PHP part of the build is failing with this error:

 

    /home/charlie/xapian-bindings-1.2.8/php/smoketest.php:38:
include(xapian.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

    FAIL: smoketest.php

 

There's a xapian.php file in /home/charlie/xapian-bindings-1.2.8/php/php5/
but if I copy it to /home/charlie/xapian-bindings-1.2.8/php/ or change the
path to it in smoketest.php, the build fails right near the start with:

 

    dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes

 

Unfortunately I'm out of my comfort zone building from source. Anyone got
any ideas?

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:27:53PM +0100, Rowan @ Jetboy
wrote:
> As Xapian's been dropped from the Ubuntu repositories, I'm
attempting to
> build my own .deb from the instructions here:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/8855
>
http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/howto-build-your-own-binaries-of-ph
> p-xapian-bindings-for-debian/
I would recommend using the instructions in the FAQ, which are based on
those in the first URL, but have a couple of fixes:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/PHP%20Bindings%20Package

Cheers,
    Olly