Lovd now using Thinking Sphinx

[steven...@gmail.com]

Lovd by Less is now using Thinking Sphinx. Please see the README for
setup and run settings.

cheers,
steven bristol

[Jason Keenan]

Just my two bits, this completely rules out using lovd on a shared
host. I haven't investigated sphinx but I'm assuming that your using
it 'cause it's better but you'll probably lose a lot of people. Bummer.

Jason :(

[Steven A Bristol]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Jason Keenan <jason....@raavin.com> wrote:
>
> Just my two bits, this completely rules out using lovd on a shared
> host. I haven't investigated sphinx but I'm assuming that your using
> it 'cause it's better but you'll probably lose a lot of people. Bummer.
>
> Jason :(

Why does it rule out shared hosts? It's easier to install and use than
ferret, I thought it would be easier to use on shared hosts. Who's
your host and what is the problem?

cheers,
steven bristol

[Jason Keenan]

hey Steve,

My host is hostmonster. I can't run anything under sudo, and from
memory am pretty sure I can't compile anything. I'm pretty sure
Windows shared hosts would be in the same boat (not that you'd want
to do that ;) I'm not even sure if I would be allowed to run an
executable like that even if it was precompiled.

Actually, just ran the instructions and it seems sudo is my main
problem. Seemed to configure and make ok. I'm pretty sure I'm not
allowed to install anything below my home root and I'm pretty sure
running executables willy nilly is out too. I think it's partly about
the reasonable use of cpu power and partly about running software
that might compromise the integrity of the server for other shared
users. On a slice or VPS I imagine that not (so much of) a problem.

running 'sudo make install' gives

-bash: sudo: command not found

running just 'make install' gives

yada...@yadayada.com [~/sphinx-0.9.8.1]# make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
if test -d ../.svn; then svn info .. --xml | perl svnxrev.pl; fi;
make install-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local': Permission denied
make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home2/raavinco/sphinx-0.9.8.1/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


Cheers,

Jason

Cheers,

[Francois Gombault]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Jason Keenan <jason....@raavin.com> wrote:
> running just 'make install' gives

>[snip permission errors]

That's because install will default to system directories, but you can
probably get it to install in your home dir.

Not tested, but :
`configure --help` should give you a list of options, among which you
should find --prefix , which you can use to set the destination
install dir.

Try something like
mkdir ~/sphinx-install
configure --prefix ~/sphinx-install
make && make install

Maybe it'll work then.

--
Francois Gombault

[Jason Keenan]

Mmmm, seemed to work. Need to go to bed now. Will investigate over next couple of days. Cheers Francois and possible apologies Steve ;)

Jason :)

On 04/02/2009, at 1:57 AM, Francois Gombault wrote:

make && make install

[Luís João]

Hi Steven,


What is the rationale behind using Thinking Sphinx instead of ferret?


Luís João


On Jan 31, 3:45 pm, "stevenbris...@gmail.com"

[Steven Bristol]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Luís João <Luis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Steven,
>
>
> What is the rationale behind using Thinking Sphinx instead of ferret?
>
>
> Luís João
>

I have grown tired of users having such a hard time setting up ferret
and having just converted less accounting to use ts, I felt
comfortable with it. What do you think?

cheers,
steve