gecko-dev/webtools/lxr/INSTALL

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In order to install LXR, you will need:
- Perl version 5 or later.
- A webserver with cgi-script capabilities.
and optionally, to enable the freetext search queries:
- Glimpse
If you don't have Perl installed, get it from
<URL:http://www.perl.com/perl/info/software.html>.
If you need a webserver, take a look at Apache at
<URL:http://www.apache.org/>
If you want Glimpse and the freetext searching facilites, visit
<URL:http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/>.
LXR has so far been tested on the GNU/Linux operating system using the
Apache webserver. Other unix-like operating systems and decently
featured webservers should do as well.
To install LXR itself:
- Set the variables PERLBIN and INSTALLPREFIX in the makefile to
reflect where the Perl 5 binary is located on your system and where
you want the LXR files to be installed.
- Do "make install".
- Edit $(INSTALLPREFIX)/http/lxr.conf to fit your source code
installations and needs.
- Make sure the files in $(INSTALLPREFIX)/http can be reached via
your webserver. Make sure your webserver executes the files
search, source, ident and diff as cgi-scripts. With the Apache
webserver this can be accomplished by making
$(INSTALLPREFIX)/http/.htaccess contain the following lines:
<Files ~ (search|source|ident|diff)$>
SetHandler cgi-script
</Files>
- Generate the identifier database. Go to the directory you
configured as "dbdir" and do "$(INSTALLPREFIX)/bin/genxref foo",
where foo is the subdirectory containing the actual source code.
- (Optional) Generate the Glimpse database. Go to the directory you
configured as "dbdir" and do "glimpseindex -H . foo", where foo is
the same as above. You might want to add other options to the
commandline (e.g. "-n"), see the Glimpse documentation for details.
If it doesn't work:
- Make sure all the permissions are right. Remember that the
webserver needs to be able to access most of them.
- Check that all the Perl scripts find their library files, also when
executed by the webserver.
The lxr.conf file:
LXR does not care much about your directory structure, all relevant
paths can be configured from the lxr.conf file. This file is located
in the same directory as the perl script files. This makes it
possible to have different source trees in different directories on
the web server.
LXR recognizes the following options in the configuration file.
htmlhead
The header of all html files. This is a template that
contains mainly html code but it can also contain some special
directives, these are documented below.
htmltail
Template for bottom of pages.
htmldir
Template for the directory listing.
sourceroot
The root of the source that you want to index.
sourcerootname
The name of the root (more....)
incprefix
Where to find source specific include files.
dbdir
Where to find the database files that lxr needs (fileidx xref and
the glimpse files).
glimpsebin
Location of the glimpse binary on your system.
variable
This defines a variable that can be used in templates and
the config file. The syntax is
variable: <name>, <text>, <values>, <default>
<name> is the name of the variable, <text> is a textual description,
<values> are the possible values of the variable.
<default> is the default value of the variable.
The <values> field can either be a list starting with a "(" and
ending with a ")", with elements separated with ",", or it can be
[ <filename> ]. In this case the values are read from a file with
one value on each line.
map - This makes it possible to rewrite directories using variables.
The linux sourcecode for instance contains several different
architectures, the include files for each of these are found in the
directory /include/asm-<architecture>/. To remap each of these
according to a variable $a you can specify
map: /include/asm[^\/]*/ /include/asm-$a/
Find creative uses for this option :-)