From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 16:19:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61CC106564A for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6388FC0A for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp33.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id E61F43042D; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:19:48 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp33.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 0C85930B03; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:19:47 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.1.0.101012 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:19:43 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: Thread-Topic: libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api) In-Reply-To: <4D6EC63E.5000304@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:19:49 -0000 On 3/2/11 5:35 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: >On 02/03/2011 21:46, Tom Worster wrote: >> does anyone have advice on getting libsphinxclient up an running? >> >> the sphinxsearch port seems not to do it and i'm completely failing to >> build the client from source. > >Well, as maintainer of sphinxsearch, I'm sorry about that. I did have a >quick look at building libsphinxclient from both the 0.9.9 and 1.10-beta >sources. You're right. It's pretty broken on FreeBSD. > >Patches welcome! I'll be happy to add libsphinxclient support somehow >-- probably as a separate port, but right now $REALLIFE is keeping me >too busy to devote much time to doing ports stuff. i wish i could help. but i'm just a user, not a developer, and i find tinkering with make files and the rest is usually a mistake. >Looks like there's been some significant fixes gone into the development >version -- the OP might like to try grabbing the latest code from SVN >(http://code.google.com/p/sphinxsearch/) and trying that. the new stuff looks very interesting but for the production systems i generally use "releases" of whatever it may be on the assumption that a bit more qa goes into those. that's why i'm not even dealing with sphinx 1.10 for now as it's marked as a beta. all the same, thanks for the info. tom