[pylucene-dev] Need PyLucene 2.0 on Ubuntu x64

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Greg Kuperberg wrote:

> Just like Marcin Swiderski, I really need to install PyLucene on an
> Ubuntu x64 machine.  I would strongly prefer PyLucene 2.0 to make it
> compatible with what I just installed on my laptop (which is instead
> 32-bit Fedora Core 4).
>
> The PyLucene home page is thoroughly misleading, because it just says
> "Ubuntu".  Marcin and I both downloaded the binary.  Of course the OS
> refused to run it, because it is ELF32.

Well, I didn't even know there was such a thing as Ubuntu 64.
I don't have that kind of hardware available to try it out either.

What is the gcj story on 64 bit platforms such as Ubuntu 64 ?

> Then I tried to compile from source.
>
> My machine is running, I think, Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft).  It has gcj
> 4.1. As you might expect from Andi's recent experience, the compile from
> source does not work.  That is, the package compiles, but some of the
> tests fail.  Here is a report:

I've never had gcj 4.1 work on Linux for PyLucene out of the box. By applying 
the patch mentioned in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-03/msg00190.html I was 
able to get it to work on gentoo 32 (!).

The first gcj 4.x that worked out of the box (that box being an unpatched 
source tarball) on Linux for PyLucene was a recent gcj 4.2.0 snapshot or the 
svn branch.

> I am willing to lend the irreplaceable Andi Vajda a guest account on
> my Ubuntu computer, trefoil.math.ucdavis.edu, for the sake of a more
> shareable solution.

That would be great, all I need is ssh access.
I can mail you my public key if that helps.

Andi..