Xapian discuss - Jul 2018 - Difficulty trying to configure and installing XAPIAN!

Hi I'm trying to configure and install XAPIAN for hacking.

The problem it's the current XAPIAN-Master of github it's not working.

I try to configure the XAPIAN-CORE and he don´t recognize ./configure
or if I run from a build folder ../configure

I'm working in a CENTOS 7 and i installed this prerequisits:

yum group install "Development Tools" #for GCC 4.8.5 and make 3.8.2
yum install zlib-devel.x86_64 #for zlib-devel-1.2.7-17.el7.x86_64
yum install libuuid-devel.x86_64 #for  libuuid-devel-2.23.2-52.el7.x86_64
yum install uuid-devel.x86_64 #for uuid-devel-1.6.2-26.el7.x86_64
yum install graphviz #for graphviz-2.30.1-21.el7.x86_64
yum install help2man #for help2man-1.41.1-3.el7.noarch
yum install python-docutils
#for  python-docutils-0.11-0.3.20130715svn7687.el7.noarch

I installed xapian-core, xapian-omega, and xapian-bidings 1.4.5 in one
centos 7 and I did not have this problem.

Another question is what is the best way to configure xapian to be able to
change the c++ base code?

Thank you for your attention,

Jose Marques

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 04:29:52PM +0100, José Manuel Marques
wrote:
> Hi I'm trying to configure and install XAPIAN for hacking.
> 
> The problem it's the current XAPIAN-Master of github it's not
working.
> 
> I try to configure the XAPIAN-CORE and he don´t recognize ./configure
> or if I run from a build folder ../configure
I already answered this same question via the bugtracker.

When building from git you need to bootstrap the source tree before you
can configure and build it.

The top-level "README" directs you to the relevant documentation for
how
to do that:

| If you're new to hacking on Xapian, you should probably start by
| reading the xapian-core/HACKING file.  If you're new to Xapian
| entirely, you should probably read the xapian-core/README file, or you
| can find further information on our website at https://xapian.org/
|
| See the section "Building from git" in xapian-core/HACKING for
details
| on getting started.

I'm not sure how that could really be made clearer, but if you have any
suggestions let us know.

Cheers,
    Olly

Thanks for the help

2018-07-17 6:59 GMT+01:00 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 04:29:52PM +0100, José Manuel Marques wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to configure and install XAPIAN for hacking.
> >
> > The problem it's the current XAPIAN-Master of github it's not
working.
> >
> > I try to configure the XAPIAN-CORE and he don´t recognize ./configure
> > or if I run from a build folder ../configure
>
> I already answered this same question via the bugtracker.
>
> When building from git you need to bootstrap the source tree before you
> can configure and build it.
>
> The top-level "README" directs you to the relevant documentation
for how
> to do that:
>
> | If you're new to hacking on Xapian, you should probably start by
> | reading the xapian-core/HACKING file.  If you're new to Xapian
> | entirely, you should probably read the xapian-core/README file, or you
> | can find further information on our website at https://xapian.org/
> |
> | See the section "Building from git" in xapian-core/HACKING for
details
> | on getting started.
>
> I'm not sure how that could really be made clearer, but if you have any
> suggestions let us know.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>