Re: Problem with configuring Xapian

Thanks for the reply James! :)

Note that you (probably) want to install the 1.4.0 release if
> possible, at which point that will drop to just
> xapian-config. Certainly any documentation should talk about that,
> which is what users will want.
>

Will do.

So the problem is that XO_LIB_XAPIAN is trying to access the libtool
> macros. Olly may be able to help here; we don't want to turn this into
> a libtool-based project (that doesn't seem to play nicely with R).


I see. Will leave configure.ac as it is for now?

Best regards,
Amanda

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:12 PM, James Aylett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 04:56:36PM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote:
>
> > I specified XAPIAN_CONFIG as James instructed by running,
> >
> >  ./configure XAPIAN_CONFIG=path/to/xapian-config-1.3
>
> Note that you (probably) want to install the 1.4.0 release if
> possible, at which point that will drop to just
> xapian-config. Certainly any documentation should talk about that,
> which is what users will want.
>
> > I have installed all the dependencies specified in xapian-core HACKING
> file
> > including libtool. But I still get the following error when XO_LIB_XAPIAN
> > is added to configure.ac,
> >
> > configure.ac:3: error: defn: undefined macro: LT_INIT
> > aclocal.m4:43: XO_LIB_XAPIAN is expanded from...
> > configure.ac:3: the top level
> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> >
> > Could anyone tell me what I might be missing?
>
> So the problem is that XO_LIB_XAPIAN is trying to access the libtool
> macros. Olly may be able to help here; we don't want to turn this into
> a libtool-based project (that doesn't seem to play nicely with R).
>
> J
>
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>   James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
>   xapian.org
>
>