Re: [EP-underground] [OT] wvWare on Solaris

Christopher Gutteridge <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:27:24 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.eprints.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
that sounds like a message that should be sent to the tech list.

Ian Stuart wrote:

> I know this isn't ePrints specifically, but it *is* related: I'm 
> trying to get my ePrints install to index word documents (it does html 
> & text files fine), and I've got wvWare installed locally (along with 
> glib & libwmf & libgsf & libxml2 & mktemp & pkg-config....)
>
> HOWEVER (isn't there always a "but" in these messages?) I'm having 
> difficulty getting it to run..
>
> It keeps dying because it's trying to access (non-existent) iconv 
> libraries... even though wv-1.2 is supposed to use glib, not iconv!
>
> I've installed glib & libxml2 & libgsf & wvWare all with a 
> "--without-iconv" switch.... to no avail.
>
> What is annoying is that a simple "yum" install on a readhat box, and 
> it works just fine - with no iconv stuff installed....
>
> Has anyone got wvWare running (working) on a Solaris system?
>
> thanks...
>

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Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, University of Southampton, 
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