Xapian discuss - Jun 2011 - Problem installing Xapian python bindings on Mac OS X

I am using xapian-bindings-1.0.16.tar.gz

./configure --prefix=$HOME PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
PYTHON_LIB=/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages  --with-python --without-ruby
--without-php --without-tcl

and I get
configure: error: Can't find xapian-config, although the xapian-core runtime
library seems to be installed.  If you've installed xapian-core from a
package, you probably need to install an extra package called something like
xapian-core-devel in order to be able to build code using the Xapian
library.

I cannot find xapian-core-devel either.

Any suggestions.

Ashish

On 14 Jun 2011, at 18:58, Ashish Gupta wrote:
> I am using xapian-bindings-1.0.16.tar.gz

Sounds like you've installed xapian-core using a packaging system, but
it's only installed the binaries. If the packaging system you used
doesn't contain the python bindings as well, you'll probably have to
install xapian-core from source before you build xapian-bindings. That is
usually fairly straightforward on Mac OS.

However you really shouldn't be using 1.0.16; it's not even the latest
1.0.x release, and you really want to use a 1.2 series, which is much more
recent and considerably better. (Including easier to build on Mac OS, I
believe.)

J

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