I didn’t find a quick short guide to installing sphinx on Leopard with PostgreSQL, hence here goes (this assumes you already installed PostgreSQL).
Compile dependencies
These two libs are required by sphinx according to this blog post.
~% mkdir src
~% cd src
~% curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
~% tar xzf libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
~% cd libiconv-1.13
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
~% make
~% sudo make install
~% cd ..
~% curl -O http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
~% tar xzf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
~% cd expat-2.0.1
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
~% make
~% sudo make install
~% cd ..
~% cd src
~% curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
~% tar xzf libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
~% cd libiconv-1.13
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
~% make
~% sudo make install
~% cd ..
~% curl -O http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
~% tar xzf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
~% cd expat-2.0.1
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
~% make
~% sudo make install
~% cd ..
Compile Sphinx
At this point latest stable release was 0.9.8.1.
~% curl -O http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
~% tar xzf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
~% cd sphinx-0.9.8.1
~% export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib"
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-pgsql --without-mysql
~% make
~% sudo make install
~% tar xzf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
~% cd sphinx-0.9.8.1
~% export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib"
~% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-pgsql --without-mysql
~% make
~% sudo make install
You’re all set.
