[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://me.yahoo.com/a/2d7oNP9wlop3PaHlGlGS1J2ppVqXf4zQAw--#17b9b"
 nickname="Matthew"
 subject="comment 3"
 date="2011-12-19T06:18:56Z"
 content="""
I had another go, this time with Xapian 1.2.8.0, and I finally got it working.  The errors I was seeing earlier were because Xapian installs itself in /usr/local, but the default CentOS environment doesn't have /usr/local/lib in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  As usual, the problem and solution are very duh, it's the error messages that make everything hard.  It's a lot more clear if you do a \"make test\" while building Search::Xapian:

<pre>
mexon:~/ikiwiki-temp/Search-Xapian-1.2.8.0$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl \"-MExtUtils::Command::MM\" \"-e\" \"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')\" t/*.t
t/01use...............
#   Failed test 'use Search::Xapian;'
#   in t/01use.t at line 3.
#     Tried to use 'Search::Xapian'.
#     Error:  Can't load '/home/mexon/ikiwiki-temp/Search-Xapian-1.2.8.0/blib/arch/auto/Search/Xapian/Xapian.so' for module Search::Xapian: libxapian.so.22: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
#  at (eval 3) line 2
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/01use.t line 3.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 3.
</pre>

So yeah.  Worth noting that Xapian 1.2.5 is apparently broken with ikiwiki.  Maybe some kind of warning?
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