[pylucene-dev] Building on OS X

[Terry Jones]

Hi Andi.

Thanks for answering.

| > 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 ?

Sorry, it's 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

Ok, I'll try that, thanks.

| 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.

Ok.

| 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.

I saw that, and uncommented it. I don't know exactly what the DBDirectory
feature does, but it sounds good :-)

I imagine it arranges for Lucene to use BDB DB for all back-end storage
(and I read that it gives me transactions, which I need), instead of
storing indices into the file system.

| > 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 ?

That's a source tarball. I downloaded a couple of binary ones, e.g.:

  $ md5sum PyLucene-db-2.0.0.tar.gz 
  600abf7377a66aa225fd5a43de489686  PyLucene-db-2.0.0.tar.gz
  $ ls -la PyLucene-db-2.0.0.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r--    1 terry    terry    10246479 May 28 01:55 PyLucene-db-2.0.0.tar.gz

This for the Mac intel (and PPC) binary tarballs. I suppose it's a minor
point - if you download a binary tarball, you're not intending to build
from source. But then again, you're lead to look for an INSTALL file.

Thanks again, I'll give it another shot.

Terry