Build htdig on ubuntu machine

Question

On my Ubuntu machine, htdig (www.htdig.org) is installed. e.g. "which htdig" gives me, /usr/bin/htdig

I want to install htdig under /var/www/my_web_site i.e. /var/www/my_web_site/htdig

Extra info:

• gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu 4.9.1-16ubuntu6)
• GNU Make 4.0

For htdig-3.1.6:

When I run "./configure", I got:

configure: error: To compile ht://Dig, you will need a C++ library. Try installing libstdc++

"Run /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep stdc++"

I have:

• libstdc++.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
• libstdc++.so.6 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

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I also tried out htdig-3.2.0b6:

I run "./configure", and it seems fine. I got something like "Now you must run 'make' followed by 'make install'"

When I run "make", I got quite a few errors like:

.....
Making all in htsearch
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/www/test/testme/sounddesign/htdig-3.2.0b6/htsearch'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -DDEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE=\"/opt/www/conf/htdig.conf\" -I../include -I../htlib -I../htnet -I../htcommon -I../htword -I../db -I../db -DCONFIG_DIR=\"/opt/www/conf\" -I../htfuzzy -g -O2 -Wall -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -c -o Display.o `test -f 'Display.cc' || echo './'`Display.cc
In file included from Display.cc:30:0:
Collection.h:39:10: error: extra qualification ‘Collection::’ on member ‘Open’ [-fpermissive]
 void Collection::Open();
....
....
....
Display.cc:830:32: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
 if (input->exists("endyear"))
 ^

Any idea what I should do?

Answer 1

The compiler is complaining that the class prefix Collection:: in Collection.h is both unnecessary, and now, illegal.

Simply change the htsearch/Collection.h header to this:

class Collection : public Object
{
public:
 //
 // Construction/Destruction
 //
 Collection(const char *name, const char *wordFile,
 const char *indexFile, const char *docFile,
 const char *docExcerpt);
 ~Collection();
 // COMMENT OUT OR REMOVE THESE TWO LINES:
 // void Collection::Open();
 // void Collection::Close();
 // ADD THESE TWO:
 void Open();
 void Close();

(comment out/remove old lines declaring Open/Close and add the last two lines above)

After doing this, htdig 3.2 b 6 compiled successfully for me. The warnings are just that: warnings. They won't prevent successful compilation. This is now a very old codebase, and some of the C++ is invariably not compliant with current compiler standards.