[pylucene-dev] segmentation fault with jcc build

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Phil Christensen wrote:

> BTW, I realize this class cannot be instantiated, I get the same result this 
> way:
>
> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 20:11:18)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import lucene
>>>> directory = lucene.FSDirectory.getDirectory('lucene', False)
> Segmentation fault

Try:

>>> import lucene
>>> lucene.initVM(lucene.CLASSPATH)
>>> directory = lucene.FSDirectory.getDirectory('lucene', False)

Why isn't initVM() called automatically ?
Well, as is explained in JCC's README, there are many options a VM can be 
configured with that it seemed preferable to let the user do it.
Also, the VM can be initialized only once for a given process, doing a default 
init would be in the way. Lazily doing it would add a call in lots of places 
too.

Andi..