Xapian discuss - May 2006 - Xapian 0.9.5, Cygwin and xapian-config

Hello,

I am trying to get Xapian 0.9.5 compiled on Win32 using Cygwin. I use 
the same configuration I described in 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/2071/focus=2071>.

The "make" command failed when trying to build
"xapian-config". "make"
outputs:
"""
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status xapian-config
config.status: creating xapian-config
"""
then seems to never terminate (I let it run for twenty minutes before 
killing it). The task manager shows that "sed" is taking all the 
processing time and FileMon does not show any specific filesystem 
activity. I am stuck at this point. I tried to comment the library 
dependency tracking function added since xapian 0.9.2 to no avail.

Besides, compared to the compilation of 0.9.2, I have the following remarks:
- The precedence of win32 find.exe over cygwin one is correctly detected 
by configure.
- There is a problem when generating "config.h": instead of being left
commented, the symbol SNPRINTF is defined to "no" which breaks macro 
expansion in many places. Commenting it deals with the issue.
- I still have to add dependencies via the BACKENDS_LA variable (see my 
previous post linked above).

Thank you for any idea about the sed pseudo-infinite loop.

--
Patrick M?zard

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:47:04PM +0200, Patrick M?zard
wrote:
> The "make" command failed when trying to build
"xapian-config". "make"
> outputs:
> """
> cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status xapian-config
> config.status: creating xapian-config
> """
> then seems to never terminate (I let it run for twenty minutes before 
> killing it). The task manager shows that "sed" is taking all the 
> processing time and FileMon does not show any specific filesystem 
> activity. I am stuck at this point. I tried to comment the library 
> dependency tracking function added since xapian 0.9.2 to no avail.
I think the problem is with generating xapian-config, not trying to
run it (especially since it doesn't get run at all during the
xapian-core build!)

Can you find out what arguments the sed was passed?  If "ps" works in
cygwin, the output of "ps wux|grep sed" should say.  If not, can you
see if "config.status" is still running?
> Besides, compared to the compilation of 0.9.2, I have the following
remarks:
> - The precedence of win32 find.exe over cygwin one is correctly detected 
> by configure.
Good!
> - There is a problem when generating "config.h": instead of being
left
> commented, the symbol SNPRINTF is defined to "no" which breaks
macro
> expansion in many places. Commenting it deals with the issue.
Oops, there's a reversed conditional in configure.  I'll fix that.
> - I still have to add dependencies via the BACKENDS_LA variable (see my 
> previous post linked above).
Hmm.  I'll try to look into that some more.  I wonder if perhaps we
should give up using libtool convenience libraries like this, which
would have the added benefit of reducing the size of the build tree
quite a bit.

Cheers,
    Olly