[htdig] My build, Solaris 10

[Brodie, Kent]

Greetings.   I see this list is relatively quiet (no posts for the last 3 months – wow).    I found the searchable archives quite useful, and thought I’d throw in my two cents worth of experiences here.   My goal:  MAILMAN with searchable archives.  (Yup, the ol’ mailman+htdig setup).    Apparently there’s only been marginal success getting this completely working.   There’s a few examples of mailman+htdig lists out there, but not very many….     Which is too bad, since mailman is VERY good stuff, and so is htdig.    I’ve been pounding on this for days.   My *original* setup was:  Mailman 2.1.5, htdig 3.1.6, Solaris 10 (yes, 10), and gcc 3.3.2.   For the most part, this worked.    I was able to generate the ht databases, index the archives, and search them.     The only issue I had when building htdig was to manually set the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable to “/usr/local/lib”, which is where my c++ libraries were.    That snippet of gold from the archives was dead on.   Without doing that, you get complaints about libstdc++.so.5 and such not being able to be found.   But, after it was all done, I had one issue that I could not get past, which was the nightly_htdig script (courtesy of mailman) kept blowing up and core dumping.    This script basically checks the lists for activity, and does a RUNDIG on the archives for the purpose of updating the indices.   It seemed to work, sort of, and generate results- but it would run for something like 15 minutes and then dump.   And the searchable stuff was quite tiny – only a handful of pages.   Then, I was made aware of the beta build of htdig--   v3.2.0b6.   So, I grabbed that and started all over.    NOTE TO ALL SOLARIS DUDES (or dudettes):  THIS WORKS.   While I was experiencing major problems with 3.1.6 on Solaris (including re-doing the compile a bazillion ways, including stuff like –with-rx, which seemed to make no difference), compiling, building, and installing ht://Dig 3.2.0b6 on Solaris 10 works out of the box.    And my nightly htdig run?   It only executes for something like 10 seconds.     Not 15 minutes.   And no crash.  Woohoo!   Gcc I used was the package from sunfreeware.com and is the latest available.