Compiling / usage on FreeBSD about dovecot-fts-flatcurve HOT 8 CLOSED

I merged #21 which should fix the compiler errors.

As for the runtime error - @Nimloth mentions that he can get this running just fine on BSD (I don't have a BSD test machine). Unless a reproducible test case can be generated, I'm not sure there's much more I can do since the code does seems to work in at least some usages.

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During configure, xapian-config is called to get the path both for the libs (xapian-config --ltlibs) and the headers (xapian-config --cxxflags). They are assigned to the variables XAPIAN_LIBS and XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS respectively.
However, in the generated src/Makefile.in, only XAPIAN_LIBS is used when generating the flags for the compiler.
At a first glance, try replacing

AM_CXXFLAGS = \
        $(XAPIAN_LIBS)

with

AM_CXXFLAGS = \
        $(XAPIAN_LIBS) $(XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS)

in src/Makefile.am, which should fix it.

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For what it is worth, I have cobbled together a port that compiles (and works) for me:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261766
Feel free to try - feedback is very welcome.

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Are you using NFS?

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Yes, tried it on NFS mounted mails storage. Is there a known limitation with NFS?

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There are locking limitations on certain NFS installations. So I'm guessing that's what you are running into.

I do have it on my TODO list to add support for a supposedly more-friendly NFS solution.

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The new file locking solution has been backported from 2.4 core. Can you try the new code and see if it improves things?

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Closing, as this was confirmed fixed on at least one BSD test machine.

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