wrong place for cluecene-config.h in package libclucene-dev

[WangLu]

Binary package hint: libclucene-dev

after installed that package, I found a file /usr/lib/Clucene/clucene-config.h, is it apparently in the wrong place?

[djinn (supreet-sethi)]

I think, it is supposed to be at /usr/include/CLucene/clucene-config.h

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

no, it's in the right place.

[Gavin Hurlbut (gjhurlbu)]

No it is not. Most definitely not.

Try this (I'm using Jaunty, BTW)

#include <CLucene.h>

int main() {
  _lucene_shutdown();
}

compile that with g++ and see what happens:

It can't find the clucene-config.h file to compile against. This is broken, plain and simple. It needs to be in /usr/include/CLucene for libclucene-dev to be usable. This is a serious bug in the packaging, regardless of how Ubuntu likes to package things. It is not normal to require "-I/usr/lib" as compile options to use a library in development.

[Gavin Hurlbut (gjhurlbu)]

All that is needed to fix this is to place a symlink to /usr/lib/CLucene/clucene-config.h into /usr/include/CLucene. Without this, libclucene-dev is unusable. I have added it to my build system for beirdobot (on github) so I can use CLucene in that project. Without this change, the system can not compile anything that uses #include <CLucene.h>

I do not have the dpkg expertise (yet) to create the appropriate patch to fix this issue, but it really needs to be fixed ASAP if this package is to be of any use.