My build, Solaris 10

Greetings.   I see this list is relatively quiet (no posts for the last
3 months - wow).    I found the searchable archives quite useful, and
thought I'd throw in my two cents worth of experiences here.

 

My goal:  MAILMAN with searchable archives.  (Yup, the ol' mailman+htdig
setup).    Apparently there's only been marginal success getting this
completely working.   There's a few examples of mailman+htdig lists out
there, but not very many....     Which is too bad, since mailman is VERY
good stuff, and so is htdig.    I've been pounding on this for days.

 

My *original* setup was:  Mailman 2.1.5, htdig 3.1.6, Solaris 10 (yes,
10), and gcc 3.3.2.

 

For the most part, this worked.    I was able to generate the ht
databases, index the archives, and search them.     The only issue I had
when building htdig was to manually set the LD_RUN_PATH environment
variable to "/usr/local/lib", which is where my c++ libraries were.
That snippet of gold from the archives was dead on.   Without doing
that, you get complaints about libstdc++.so.5 and such not being able to
be found.

 

But, after it was all done, I had one issue that I could not get past,
which was the nightly_htdig script (courtesy of mailman) kept blowing up
and core dumping.    This script basically checks the lists for
activity, and does a RUNDIG on the archives for the purpose of updating
the indices.   It seemed to work, sort of, and generate results- but it
would run for something like 15 minutes and then dump.   And the
searchable stuff was quite tiny - only a handful of pages.

 

Then, I was made aware of the beta build of htdig--   v3.2.0b6.   So, I
grabbed that and started all over.  

 

NOTE TO ALL SOLARIS DUDES (or dudettes):  THIS WORKS.   While I was
experiencing major problems with 3.1.6 on Solaris (including re-doing
the compile a bazillion ways, including stuff like -with-rx, which
seemed to make no difference), compiling, building, and installing
ht://Dig 3.2.0b6 on Solaris 10 works out of the box.    And my nightly
htdig run?   It only executes for something like 10 seconds.     Not 15
minutes.   And no crash.  Woohoo!

 

Gcc I used was the package from sunfreeware.com and is the latest
available.