Problems using Snowball's libstemmer

[Murilo]

Hello,

I'm trying to get stemming working on my app (portuguese stemming), so
I downloaded libstemmer from Snowball's site, compiled sphinx with
libstemmer (successfully)s, and wrote my sphinx.conf like this:

development:
morphology: libstemmer_pt

That causes:
"WARNING: index 'maid_core': invalid morphology option 'libstemmer_pt'
- IGNORED

I tried several stemming options that comes with libstemmer, without
success.

Don't know what can be happening, can someone help me?

Thanks.

[Pat Allan]

Hi Murilo

Sounds like you're doing the right things, but just to check: what
were the configure options you used when building Sphinx?

--
Pat

[murilasso]

Hello Pat, thanks for answering.

I configured with the flags "--with-libstemmer --with-pgsql"

Any ideas? I looked at the libstemmer directory after the compile and
all sources were indeed compiled.
Maybe it didn't installed right?

--
Murilo Soares Pereira
http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~murilo

[Pat Allan]

Hi Murilo

Did you compile the stemmers first, or Sphinx? Also, does libstemmer
have some way of testing stem files? I've never dealt with custom
options before, so I'm a little out of my depth here.

--
Pat

[murilasso]

The stemmers are compiled parallel to sphinx compilation. I'm trying
to discover some way of testing the stem files, but I didn't find any
material on that.

I'll keep trying to make It work. If I succeed I'll let you know.

Thanks for your time.