Xapian discuss - Sep 2008 - Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory

Briefly: when I try to build xapian-bindings the make command fails with:
"Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory"

When I run configure these are the last few lines:
I tried running "./configure" and "./configure --without-java
--without-tcl
--without-tcl8 --without-csharp --without-perl --with-python
" with no difference. Note the tcl msg. I'm not sure if it's
spurious or not
-- all I want are the python bindings.

config.status: creating java/Makefile
config.status: creating java/native/Makefile
config.status: creating java/org/Makefile
config.status: creating java/org/xapian/Makefile
config.status: creating java/org/xapian/errors/Makefile
config.status: creating java/org/xapian/examples/Makefile
config.status: creating java-swig/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: tcl8/Makefile.in

bash-3.2$ make

cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
make  all-recursive
Making all in python
Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/xapian_wrap.Plo'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/dave/Desktop/xapian-bindings-1.0.7
bash-3.2$ uname -a
Darwin MegaMac.local 9.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun  9 19:30:53
PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386


I'm on OSX 10.5.4.
I had some same result running on a Powerbook with the previous version of
OSX, 10.4.11.

xapian-core built file and has been installed.
xapian-config is in my PATH

ideas?

thx,
 Dave

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:31:39PM -0700, David Spencer wrote:
> Briefly: when I try to build xapian-bindings the make command fails with:
> "Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory"
> 
> When I run configure these are the last few lines:
> I tried running "./configure" and "./configure
--without-java --without-tcl
> --without-tcl8 --without-csharp --without-perl --with-python
> " with no difference. Note the tcl msg. I'm not sure if it's
spurious or not
> -- all I want are the python bindings.
[...]
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: tcl8/Makefile.in
The way the system works, these files get used even if you aren't
building those bindings. I can't remember details, but I'm pretty sure
that you'll need to fix this before proceeding. tcl8/Makefile.in
should be in the archive you downloaded, or if you're using a SVN
snapshot it should be created by bootstrapping. Can you double-check
where you got the source from?

J

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  James Aylett                                                  xapian.org
  james at tartarus.org                               uncertaintydivision.org

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:31:39PM -0700, David Spencer
wrote:
> Briefly: when I try to build xapian-bindings the make command fails with:
> "Makefile:379: .deps/xapian_wrap.Plo: No such file or directory"
> 
> When I run configure these are the last few lines:
> I tried running "./configure" and "./configure
--without-java --without-tcl
> --without-tcl8 --without-csharp --without-perl --with-python
If you just want Python, you only need "--with-python".

If you explicitly ask for particular bindings, you will only get those
you ask for.  If you don't specify, configure will probe what languages
support is available for and enable those.

Requiring users to explicitly disable every language they didn't want
would be clumsy - it's O(n) in the number of other languages supported,
and it would mean packaging scripts for xapian-bindings would need
fixing for every new language supported.

Many people seem to misunderstand how this works, but it seems the sanest
approach to me, and it is documented (in INSTALL).  If the documentation
could be clearer, please suggest how.

There isn't even a "--without-perl" or "--without-tcl8"
option (and you
didn't pass "--without-ruby"...)
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: tcl8/Makefile.in
As James says, your source tree is incomplete for some reason.  You need
to work out why.

Cheers,
    Olly