Xapian discuss - Feb 2006 - TCL bindings

I've been messing with the TCL bindings.  I changed the test code to
use 1.9.2 and I did the --prefix thing.

There is a bug with SWIG 1.3.26.  In the function
SWIG_Tcl_PointerTypeFromString() in swigtcl8.swg it doesn't like
string objects that start with an underscore.  So if you do
`simplesearch.tcl ~/mydb/ _foo` it segfaults.  Upgrading to the CVS
version of SWIG fixes this, but that's probably not necessarily
something for the faint hearted.

regards,
dan carpenter

--- xapian-bindings/python/Makefile.am  (revision 6532)
+++ xapian-bindings/python/Makefile.am  (working copy)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

 SUBDIRS = docs

-pylibdir = @PYTHON_LIB@
+pylibdir = ${prefix}/@PYTHON_LIB@

 pylib_SCRIPTS = @PYTHON_MODERN_OR_OLDE@/xapian.py xapian.pyc

--- xapian-bindings/tcl8/docs/examples/simplesearch.tcl (revision 6532)
+++ xapian-bindings/tcl8/docs/examples/simplesearch.tcl (working copy)
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # We need at least Tcl version 8.1
 package require Tcl 8.1
 # We need xapian 0.9.3 for the query from list ctor wrapper
-package require xapian 0.9.3
+package require xapian 0.9.2

 if {[llength $argv] < 2} {
     puts "usage: $argv0 <path to database> <search
terms>"

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:21:36AM -0800, Dan Carpenter
wrote:
> There is a bug with SWIG 1.3.26.  In the function
> SWIG_Tcl_PointerTypeFromString() in swigtcl8.swg it doesn't like
> string objects that start with an underscore.  So if you do
> `simplesearch.tcl ~/mydb/ _foo` it segfaults.  Upgrading to the CVS
> version of SWIG fixes this, but that's probably not necessarily
> something for the faint hearted.
Thanks for checking with a newer SWIG.

I'll be building the next Xapian release with SWIG 1.3.28 (or perhaps
1.3.28rc2 or later if it doesn't get released in time), so this will be
fixed in the next Xapian release.  I'll mention it in the release notes.

Cheers,
    Olly