Mu-indexer Xapian compile error -- Mac OS

[ckelty ckelty]

Trying to compile mu on a fancy new M1 Macbook, and getting this error:

mu-indexer.cc:34:10: fatal error: 'xapian.h' file not found

autogen recognizes the correct location for xapian's header files, and the Makefiles all have what appears to be the correct paths:

XAPIAN_CFLAGS = -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xapian/1.4.18/include
XAPIAN_CONFIG =
XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS = -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xapian/1.4.18/include
XAPIAN_LIBS = -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xapian/1.4.18/lib -lxapian

Wondering if anyone has seen this error or if it is something easy I am missing---like another environment variable or path issue?

ck

[cke...@gmail.com]

Answering my own question here:

I had to compile Xapian from source, which seems to have worked just fine.  Homebrew has switched to installing in /opt/homebrew on macs with M1 Silicon, and for whatever reason the compiler cannot find the header files for xapian if it is installed there.  But source installs it in /usr/local and that works.  Not ideal for future upgrading, but whatever.

On the upside, mu is very fast on M1 :)

ck

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Best file a ticket which includes the complete compile error log.

Kind regards,
Dirk.

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[Charl Botha]

I ran into exactly this issue.

A more straight-forward solution is to ensure that mu builds with clang (and not g++, which is an optional extra here), and to point it to the homebrew installed xapian like this:

autoreconf -i && ./configure --disable-silent-rules CC=/usr/bin/clang CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xapian/1.4.18/include/"

make install

HTH,

Charl