[pylucene-dev] Error after Install

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Christian Klinger wrote:

> i ´use a Suse Linux. I ´ve compiled gcc 3.4.6 myself. make test runs into 
> errors with the following output.
>
> linux:/tmp/luc/PyLucene-src-2.0.0 # make test
> cd samples/LuceneInAction; /usr/local/bin/python index.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "index.py", line 11, in ?
>   False)
> File 
> "/tmp/luc/PyLucene-src-2.0.0/samples/LuceneInAction/lia/common/TestDataDocumentHandler.py", 
> line 38, in createIndex
>   writer = IndexWriter(indexDir, StandardAnalyzer(), True)
> PyLucene.JavaError: java.lang.NullPointerException
> make: *** [samples/LuceneInAction/index] Error 1
>
> linux:/tmp/luc/PyLucene-src-2.0.0 # /usr/local/gcc-3.4.6/bin/gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/local/gcc-3.4.6/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/specs
> Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.6/configure --enable-threads=posix 
> --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.4.6 --enable-languages=c,c++,java
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.6

gcj 3.4.6 should work on Suse but I don't have access to a Suse system so I 
can't verify this. Are you sure you used the gcj you compiled to build 
PyLucene ? Are you sure that you're running with the libgcj you built ? Did 
you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the correct libgcj.so is picked up ?

Have you tried to use the binaries built for Ubuntu or Red Hat available from 
the PyLucene web site ?

If all fails, try earlier versions of gcj like 3.4.3 but I'd be really 
surprised if that solved the problem. You may also try newer versions such as 
gcj 4.1.0 but I've had more problems with gcj 4 everywhere.

Andi..