1.3.4 is a development release of xapian-omega and it has special check for xapian-config, which is hardcoded to xapian-config-1.3. Explanation to this is here: http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-tickets/2016-January/003600.html. This is a ticket by gentoo developer. This is not good to have unfixed ebuild present in tree, likely its configure check is not tested before adding to tree. Suggesting to add configure environment extra check for 1.3.4 ebuild. Same confgiure check should be set for PCRE support. Excerpt form configure help: Some influential environment variables: CC C compiler command CFLAGS C compiler flags LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory <lib dir> LIBS libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l<library> CPPFLAGS (Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir> LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH User-defined run-time library search path. CPP C preprocessor CXX C++ compiler command CXXFLAGS C++ compiler flags CXXCPP C++ preprocessor XAPIAN_CONFIG Location of xapian-config (default: xapian-config-1.3 on PATH) PCRE_CONFIG Location of pcre-config PKG_CONFIG Location of pkg-config Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =xapian-omega-1.3.4 2. 3. Actual Results: checking for xapian-config-1.3... no configure: error: Can't find xapian-config, although the xapian-core runtime library seems to be installed. If you've installed xapian-core from a package, you probably need to install an extra package called something like xapian-core-devel in order to be able to build code using the Xapian library.
I haven't dropped the ball on this, but the are a few other problems that I want to fix.
This should be fixed. Please test and reopen if its still an issue.
There was some clean-ups, stabilization and subslot changes in: xapian xapian-bindings xapian-omega Latter one stabilized without any changes in configure. Not fixed.
ok, xapian-1.3.4-r2 now installing xapian-config-1.3 symlink, which is xapian-omega able to find now. I believe it's fixed now.
