[pylucene-dev] Building on OS X

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Terry Jones wrote:

> Is this list the appropriate place to ask questions about installing
> PyLucene?

Yes.

> I spent quite a bit of time yesterday trying to make things build and play
> together. The last thing I tried was to co the PyLucene trunk and follow
> the instructions in INSTALL on building gcc-3.4.4 from sources. I do this,
> and the build goes swimmingly until it hits this:

You say you're on OS X 10.4.7. Is that PPC or Intel ?

If you're on PPC 10.4.7, then gcj 3.4.4 should work. I've never tried gcc 
4.0.2 on PPC OS X. I've tried gcj 4.1.0 built via darwinports and that did 
work (again, on PPC OS X only).

If you're on Intel 10.4.7, then gcj 3.4.4 will not work. You must then build 
gcj 4.0.2 with the patches included here:
     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-05/msg00151.html

> And looking in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4/include/db.h I see the following
> empty section:

> I'm trying to build gcc in order to then build PyLucene against BSD DB
> 4.4.20. The 4.3.28 version of BSD DB does not seem to be available at
> sleepycat any longer. Plus I already have Python's bsddb built against
> 4.4.20, so I thought building PyLucene against it was the best option.

The PyLucene -db- flavor of the binaries can be built with db 4.3.29 or db 
4.4.20. Both are supported and the right version must be chosen in PyLucene's 
Makefile. Also, you must ensure that the bsddb you're using is built against 
the *same* version of Berkeley DB and is linked against the same shared 
libraries.

Also, you do *not* need to build PyLucene against Berkeley DB unless you want 
to use the DBDirectory feature. It is optional and is turned off by default in 
the Makefile. The DB variable is commented out.

> BTW, the README in the PyLucene tarballs says "To build PyLucene from
> sources, please see the INSTALL file." This could be improved a little -
> the INSTALL file is in svn but is not shipped in the tarballs.

Strange. The PyLucene-src-2.0.0-3.tar.gz source tarball I uploaded last night 
does include that file. Which archive did you start with ?

Andi..