[pylucene-dev] Build error with gcc on Solaris x86

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Aijin Kim wrote:

> I'm trying to build the latest pylucene with gcc(3.4.4) on Solaris(x86).
> After building jcc-it was ok-I got errors as below when trying to build
> pylucene:
> /
> build/_lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/Token.h:74: error: expected
> unqualified-id before numeric constant
> build/_lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/Token.h:74: error: abstract
> declarator `java::lang::String*' used as declaration
> build/_lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/Token.h:74: error: expected `;'
> before numeric constant
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp:72662: error: expected unqualified-id before
> numeric constant
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp:72662: error: expected init-declarator before
> numeric constant
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp:72662: error: expected `,' or `;' before
> numeric constant
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp: In static member function `static _jclass*
> org::apache::lucene::analysis::Token::initializeClass()':
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp:72701: error: non-lvalue in assignment
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp: In static member function `static void
> org::apache::lucene::analysis::t_Token::initialize(PyObject*)':
> build/_lucene/__wrap__.cpp:72898: error: expected unqualified-id before
> numeric constant
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> gmake: *** [compile] Error 1
> /
> I googled some info and it seems that the errors are specific to Solaris
> x86.
> However, i don't know how can I fix them.

Use the Solaris compiler instead, Sun Studio.

I recently did a build of PyLucene on Solaris 11 with the corresponding Sun 
Studio C++ and it works well. The changes necessary made it into PyLucene 
2.3.0.

I realize that this may be easier said that done if Python was itself 
compiled with gcc on that system.

> I'd much appreciate if anyone has idea on this.

Another solution would be to use a newer gcc compiler. 3.4.4 is really 
really old now. How about using 4.x ?

Andi..