Thank you for the advice.  I won't get much of chance to try it till next week sometime, 
but, again, let me thank you now for offering your help.

Mike Kukla
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, J Robinson wrote:

> I had that problem too with Swish-e 2.4.1 on a RH
> system. 
> 
> If memory serves, the machine which had libxml2...rpm
> installed, but not libxml2-devel...rpm. [I tested and
> the same problem didn't happen on the same
> configuration with 2.4.0.]
> 
> Again, if memory serves, I installed the proper
> libxml2-devel...rpm this problem went away. 
> 
> Maybe you have the libxml2 libraries installed, but
> not the equivalent development libraries and headers?
> 
> jrobinson
> 
> --- Michael F Kukla <kukla@buffalo.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > When trying to build and install SWISH::API, 
> > I keep getting this  error message when running
> > make:  
> > 
> > /usr/bin/perl
> > /usr/perl5.6.1.633/lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp
> > -noprototypes -typemap
> > /usr/perl5.6.1.633/lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/typemap
> > -typemap typemap  API.xs > API.xsc && mv API.xsc
> > API.c
> > 
> > Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in API.xs, line
> > 589
> > 
> > make: *** [API.c] Error 1
> > 
> > I am running Solaris  8 and have already installed
> > Swish-e 2.4.1 succesfully.
> > 
> > I would much prefer to use an OO interface with
> > swish and really don't want to fall back on 
> > a cgi solution (since we are using mason)
> > 
> > Does anyone have any advice on overcoming this
> > problem? Any help would be greatly 
> > appreciated inasmuch as the powers that be here are
> > rather insistent
> > that we have a workable search engine on our site
> > forthwith ;)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Kukla,
> > Web Applications Developer
> > University of Buffalo, 
> > College of Arts and Sciences,
> > Educational Technology Node (CASet),
> > 414 Clemens Hall
> > 
> > Phone: 645-6000, ext.1156
> > Email: kukla@buffalo.edu 
> 
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Mike Kukla,
Web Applications Developer
University of Buffalo, 
College of Arts and Sciences,
Educational Technology Node (CASet),
414 Clemens Hall

Phone: 645-6000, ext.1156
Email: kukla@buffalo.edu