Thanks for your reply David.

Actually I compiled for the FS method indexer typing just make at the 
prompt. After I talked to you, I even typed make METHOD=FS but with the 
same result.

Here's the Makefile content for your reference:

# Makefile for SWISH
# Kevin Hughes, 3/12/95
#
# The code has been tested to compile on 
# Solaris and DEC  G.Hill ghill@library.berkeley.edu 6/11/97
#

#CC= cc
#CC= /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc
#CC = /vol/moby/moby_a/gnu/sun4_sunos5.1/bin/gcc
CC = /usr/bin/gcc
#CC = gcc

CFLAGS= -O2
#CFLAGS=-g

LIBS=	-lm

#
# Method defaults to the filesystem
#
METHOD=FS

#
# The objects for the different methods and
# some common aliases
#
FILESYSTEM_OBJS=fs.o
HTTP_OBJS=http.o httpserver.o 
FS_OBJS=$(FILESYSTEM_OBJS)
WEB_OBJS=$(HTTP_OBJS)

#
# Create a common name
#
METHOD_OBJS=$(HTTP_OBJS)

OBJS=	check.o file.o index.o search.o error.o \
	hash.o list.o mem.o string.o merge.o swish.o $(METHOD_OBJS)

.c.o:
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $<

all:	swish-e

swish-e:	
	make CFLAGS="-g" $(OBJS)
	$(CC) -o swish-e -g $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
	chmod 755 swish-e

quant:
	make CFLAGS="-g" $(OBJS)
	make quant-link

quant-link:
	quantify $(CC) -o swish-e -g $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)

pure:
	make clean
	make CFLAGS="-g" $(OBJS)
	make pure-link

clean:
	rm -f ./swish-e ./*.o ./index.swish

pure-link:
	$(CC) -o swish-e -g $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)

test:
	./swish-e -i test.html -v -f index.swish
	./swish-e -f index.swish -w test

$(OBJS):	Makefile config.h swish.h






On 3 Jan 99, at 17:04, David Norris wrote:

> > I compiled Swish-e without problems on a IPP hosted BSDI 3.0 server
> > using gcc. Unfortunately when I run the test, I receive the error:
> > Skipping test.html:  Wrong method or server
>                              ^^^^^^
> You compiled the HTTP spider.  I believe that the test tries to read
> test.html from the file system.  That won't work.  You can make the
> test.html file available on your HTTP server then index it.  Or, you can
> make a FS method indexer.
> 
> ,David Norris
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