Forum OpenACS Q&A: openfts-tcl compiling error on debian sarge

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1: openfts-tcl compiling error on debian sarge
Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 01/23/05 04:41 AM
Today while compiling Postgresql OpenFTS-TCL 0.3.2 module on Debian Gnu/Linux i386 current testing distribution (sarge), I ran into the compile-time error related with flexparser.c

Debian sarge provides flex version 2.5.31 and there are people indicating problems with this flex version in OpenFTS mailing list, see here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7671&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200402

I just removed flex 2.5.31 switching to flex 2.5.4a.

ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/non-gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz

flex-2.5.4a is in debian distribution stable http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/flex

I tried add this message as a comment on the documentation page for full text search for openacs-5-1 and had a server error either with plain text or html. general-comments are not working on openacs.org ?

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2: Re: openfts-tcl compiling error on debian sarge (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/23/05 06:56 AM
Why are you using OpenFTS if you are doing a new install. Make use of tsearch2-driver, which is contained in newer postgres versions and newer openacs versions. Works like a charm.