[pylucene-dev] Unable to install PyLucene-2.0 on Fedora Core 4

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Greg Kuperberg wrote:

> The first problem was that neither libstdc++.so.6 nor libgcc_s.so.1 were
> linked properly in /usr/lib with this configuration.  The Makefile erased

erased ? how so ?

> the already-present /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 and then couldn't find it.
> The Makefile also could not find libgcc_s.so.1 in its old location,
> /bin/libgcc_s.so.1.  Maybe both could be fixed by simply blanking the
> LIB_INSTALL field in the Makefile, but this was not at all clear to me.

If you already have these libs installed there is no need to install them 
again and LIB_INSTALL can be blanked.

> I am wondering if this is the result of using libgcj-4.0.1 (standard with
> Fedora Core 4).  It is not easy for me to patch this package if that is
> the problem.  However, the problem is not the same one reported in the
> GCC mailing list; garbage collection does not fail:

I've never used this version of gcj on Linux so I don't know if it can work.
gcj 3.4.6 is known to work well on Linux.

Recently, I built gcj 4.2.0 from sources on Ubuntu and PPC mac and a PyLucene 
built with it passed all tests so you might want to try this.

As an alternative you might want to consider using the Ubuntu binaries 
available here: 
http://downloads.osafoundation.org/PyLucene/linux/ubuntu/PyLucene-2.0.0-3.tar.gz

They are statically linked against libgcj so you shouldn't have lib version 
conflicts on that lib.

Andi..