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Okay, so the Sphinx Freetext Search Engine is a game changer. Easy easy to index, easy to integrate into PHP / Rails / Django, unbelievably fast (esp. compared to database freetext engines) and easy to install.

Okay, so the easy to install thing doesn’t apply to Solaris! The main issue is linking differences because Solaris library and bin directories and more common Linux variants. Here are my notes on installing on a Solaris 10 accelerator running on Joyent.

user# wget http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
user# su
root# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin
root# LDFLAGS="-R/opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql/" CFLAGS="-m64"
root# ./configure --prefix=/opt/csw --with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/opt/csw/mysql5/include/mysql/
        --with-mysql-libs=/opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql/
root# make && make install

Okay, so it wasn’t so hard. But it’s hard breaking the Windows Installer addiction after so many years.

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