recoll-1.18.1

[jcumming]

Recoll is a handy xapian based desktop search engine.

[jcumming]

More filter hacking pending..

[vcunat]

Looks very interesting, thanks.

[peti]

I think this patch broke the nixpkgs tarbal: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4635913

[vcunat]

@peti: that's very stange, as recoll builds on my machine on the same platform and I see no reason why some of the attributes should evaluate to null.

[vcunat]

Ah, no, I was reading bad. The problem is on darwin, where libiconvOrLibc is null.

[jcumming]

Oh Bother.

I should have closed this pull request. I wasn't happy with where this approach was going.

Indexing/lookup works, and some of the filters work, but most don't.

I reworked it into something better by pushing a lot of the filter hacking upstream: https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/pull-request/2/use-autoconf-to-find-helper-programs-for .

I'll submit a new pull request when I'm happy with it.

--Jack

P.S. what is the best way to get ahold of iconv?

[vcunat]

I tried to disable this on darwin by an assert, which makes the tarball job pass that phase checking pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix on powerpc-linux, but then while checking eval-release.nix it eats more then 3.5 GB RAM at which point I killed it. Is it normal that the job needs so much memory?

@jcumming: I've got experiences in this. I thought the iconv attribute should be used everywhere where glibc doesn't contain it. If that's true, then the attribute you used seems broken on darwin.