On Mar 18 20:12, Joe Rochette wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've been using mutt and offlineimap for sometime in cygwin to make my
> windows system feel more at home.  
> 
> What I do miss however from my linux systems is the notmuch mail
> indexer.  (http://notmuchmail.org/) 
> 
> According to the source tarball INSTALL file notmuch depends on four
> libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6,
> Talloc, and zlib.  I believe i can get each of these from cygwin
> packages with the exception of Talloc:
> 
>     Talloc
>     ------
>     Talloc is a memory-pool allocator used by Notmuch.
> 
>     Talloc is an extremely lightweight and easy-to-use tool for
>     allocating memory in a hierarchical fashion and then freeing
>     it with a single call of the top-level handle. Using it has
>     made development of Notmuch much easier and much less prone to
>     memory leaks.
> 
>     Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
> 
> 
> I have attempted to compile Talloc (to in-turn compile Notmuch) and
> after a long-running ./configure step i get an error on make which is
> pasted below:   
> 
> [joe@my_pc talloc-2.1.1]$ make
> 
> WAF_MAKE=1 PATH=buildtools/bin:../../buildtools/bin:$PATH waf build
> Waf: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/joe/talloc-2.1.1/bin'
> [16/18] Linking default/cygpytalloc-util-2.dll
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.9.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -ltalloc
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Waf: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/joe/talloc-2.1.1/bin'
> Build failed:  -> task failed (err #1):
>         {task: cc_link pytalloc_util_6.o -> cygpytalloc-util-2.dll}
> Makefile:6: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> 
> Any ideas on what might be the issue?  Is anyone running notmuch (or
> talloc) for anything out there?

Looks like a simple path problem in Makefile.  It just can't find
the lib when linking.


Corinna

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