Note that now the codebase requires 0.9.0 of Xapian. The packaging

is a bit better, so the below should be a bit less hassle free

with 0.9.0

Install Xapian (Ben's notes)

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% wget http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/0.8.1/xapian-core-0.8.1.tar.gz

unpack,

% cd xapian-core-0.8.1

% ./configure

% make

% su

# make install

Perl bindings:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

.

.

.

cpan> install Search::Xapian

.

.

.

cpan> quit

Lockfile removed.

SWIG:

# pkg_fetch swig

# pkg_add /path/to/swig

PHP bindings:

% wget http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/0.8.1/xapian-bindings-0.8.1.tar.gz

unpack,

% cd xapian-bindings-0.8.1

% ./configure --without-python

I had to manually softlink libtoolize13 to libtoolize in

/usr/local/bin to make this work.

For 0.8.2 I had to comment out:

SUBDIRS=docs

in php4/Makefile.

On Mac OS X, this won't work. Dorian says: << I went into php4/xapian and ran

"glibtoolize -f -c" which created config.sub >>. There is no libtoolize on the

Mac, it is called glibtoolize.

Then I manually installed it:

# cp ~ben/software/unpacked/xapian-bindings-0.8.1/php4/xapian/modules/xapian.so /usr/local/lib/php/

add two lines to /usr/local/etc/php.ini:

extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php"

extension = xapian.so

RESTART APACHE!!!

confirm xapian is installed with:

http://parl.stand.org.uk/fawkes/www/docs/admin/test.php