The build depends on a number of third-party packages, such as gcj, Zope, and gcc 4.1. On Mac OS X many of these can be supplied by third-party package providers such as Fink and DarwinPorts. I think we need to modify the build process to check for the use of these package managers and the possibly already-installed packages we need.

The build assumes that gcc and other tools all live in GCJ_HOME. As a result, if you use /opt/local as your GCJ_HOME, you must set environment variables manually:

Environment	Value
PYLUCENE_CC	/usr/bin/gcc
PYLUCENE_CXX	/usr/bin/g++
PYLUCENE_JAR	/usr/bin/jar

Needless to say, it would be much nicer if the PyLucene build system did not do this.

Thu Dec 15 2005 14:48 PDT

Well, I've decided to give up on using the DarwinPorts versions of anything for now. If I come back to it I will update this page with a link.