[redland-dev] Building Redland 0.9.17 on WinXP w/full Cygwin install

[brian donovan]

I've been attempting to build Redland 0.9.16 on my WinXP machine at home 
today with somewhat less than satisfactory results.  I recently 
installed Cygwin (selecting all packages) and worked fom a Bash shell 
prompt.  I understand that Redland and Raptor are supposed to build 
"relatively easily" under Windows, so the problems that I'm seeing may 
not be with Redland & Raptor so much as with the different language 
APIs.  I'm hoping that someone on this list (are there other Windows 
Redland users here?) can help me to understand a few of the 
errors/warning that I get while building.  I've Googled a fair bit 
without finding anything helpful.

In doing ./configure, make, make check, and make install, I routed 
errors/warnings and results messages from each command to separate text 
files for later looking over :

./configure --with-bdb --with-mysql --with-libwww --with-perl 
--with-python --with-ruby --with-tcl 1>configure_results.txt 
2>configure_errors.txt

First, about my ./configure statement.  I'm not well-versed in Unixisms, 
so some of the --with-[x] options may have been unnecessary, although 
the impression that I got from the documentation was that I should 
include the options for the language APIs if I wanted to build them 
automatically, which I do.

The errors and warnings from the configure step above :


./configure: line 1: cd: yes/lib: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: Cannot find the BDB library name from the files in 
yes/lib
configure: WARNING: Assuming it is 'db' and will link like -ldb
configure: WARNING: Use --with-bdb-dbname=NAME if this is wrong
configure: WARNING: The generated Turtle lexer files are present.
configure: WARNING: If you want to change the lexer you will need
configure: WARNING: flex version 2.5.19 (2.5.31 recommended)
configure: WARNING: available from http://lex.sourceforge.net/
gnome-config: not found
Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found


(1.) What is "yes/lib"?  Why is the configure script looking there for 
the BDB library name?
(2.) Is there a good reason why I should want to change the lexer?
(3.) In the INSTALL.html for Raptor, it says "If GNOME glib 2.0 is 
present, it will be used for Unicode Normal Form C (NFC) checking. If it 
is missing, some of the tests will note failure." 
(http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/raptor/INSTALL.html).  I don't seem 
to have glib 2.0.  What does this mean for my Redland install?  No 
Unicode checking?

On to the make step, errors/warnings :


libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-pc-cygwin 
shared libraries
Info: resolving _xmlFree by linking to __imp__xmlFree (auto-import)
../libtool: line 1: cd: yes/lib: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `yes/lib'
make[2]: *** [librdf.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


I don't understand any of this.  Can anyone explain?

Make check errors/warnings :


Info: resolving _xmlFree by linking to __imp__xmlFree (auto-import)
Info: resolving _xmlFree by linking to __imp__xmlFree (auto-import)
raptor_uri_resolve_uri_reference: Testing with base URI 
http://example.org/bpath/cpath/d;p?querystr#frag
./raptor_uri_test: Checking relative file name 'foo' in dir /etc 
expecting URI file:///etc/foo
Content Type: text/html
./raptor_set_test: Creating set
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'ron'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'amy'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'jen'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'bij'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'jib'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'daj'
./raptor_set_test: Adding set item 'jim'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'ron'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'amy'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'jen'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'bij'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'jib'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'daj'
./raptor_set_test: Adding duplicate set item 'jim'
./raptor_set_test: Freeing set
./raptor_sequence_test: sequence after additions: [second, first, third]
./raptor_sequence_test: sequence after sort: [first, second, third]
./raptor_sequence_test: sequence after pop: [first, second]
./raptor_sequence_test: sequence after unshift: [second]
../libtool: line 1: cd: yes/lib: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `yes/lib'
make[1]: *** [librdf.la] Error 1
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1


Again, what does any of this mean?

Finally, make install errors/warnings :


../libtool: line 1: cd: yes/lib: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `yes/lib'
make[1]: *** [librdf.la] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


???

Afterwards, when I cd into the perl, python, ruby, etc. folders inside 
of the redfoot distribution and try their test scripts, only example.pl 
appears to work, producing "test-out.rdf" and 3 .db files.  When running 
the Python and Ruby scripts, both complain about missing files/modules 
named "Redland".  I can provide the output of those scripts (or the 
results.txt's for the Redland build steps on my system)  as well if it'd 
be of any help.

Thanks.