mozilla-history/webtools/lxr/INSTALL

This INSTALL file is customized for the version of lxr used by 
mozilla.org. The original version can be found at
   http://lxr.linux.no/


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 facilities, 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:

 - Retrieve the lxr source via anonymous cvs from mozilla.org's
   server from mozilla/webtools/lxr. Find out about anonymous
   cvs at mozilla.org at http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html

 - Edit lxr.conf to fit your source code installations and needs.

 - Make sure the files in 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 .htaccess contain the following lines:

       <Files ~ (search|source|ident|diff)$>
       SetHandler cgi-script
       </Files>

   You may also need to edit these Apache config files appropriately
        srm.conf
            AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

        access.conf
            Options <whatever> # setting to all will work
            AllowOverride Options

   Its also recommended to set up a robots.txt file on your server to
   discourage robots from traversing your source tree and performing
   an identifier lookup for each identifier in your code. This will
   take up a lot of cpu time and probably several gigabytes of files.

 - Generate the identifier database.  Go to the directory you
   configured as "dbdir" in lxr.conf and do "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" in lxr.conf 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.


Multiple Trees

 To have the same lxr source directory index multiple trees, use
 a web server (such as apache) that supports virtual hosts and/or
 aliases. At mozilla.org, we set the document root of lxr.mozilla.org
 to the lxr/root directory and for each tree, set up an alias with
 the tree name pointing to the main lxr directory. 

 From our httpd.conf:
 <VirtualHost 207.200.73.38:80>
        DocumentRoot /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org/root
        ServerName lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /classic /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /ef /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /grendel /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /mailnews /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /mozilla /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /nspr /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
        Alias /seamonkey /opt/webtools/lxr.mozilla.org
 </VirtualHost>


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.

 LXR recognizes the following options in the configuration file. 

 baseurl
  The url for the root directory of your source. Tree name (if any) 
  is appended to this.
 

 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.

 sourcehead
  A special version of htmlhead used for source code listings.

 sourcedirhead
  A special version of htmlhead used for directory listings.

 htmltail
  Template for bottom of pages.

 htmldir
  Template file for the directory listings.

 sourceroot 
  The root directory of the source to be indexed. If you're indexing
  several version you could include a variable in the path.
      sourceroot: /usr/local/lxr/source/$v/linux/

  To index more than one tree, include one sourceroot entry for 
  each tree. Each entry is a tree name/directory pair.
      sourceroot: classic /export2/lxr-data/classic/mozilla

 virtroot
  This is prepended to the path name when forming the url in links.

 bonsaihome
  If bonsai is set up for your code then set this as the url prefix. If not,
  then remove the bonsai related code in the htmlhead file and ignore this.
  More info on bonsai can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/bonsai.html

 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). The tree name (if any) is appended to this.

 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.
 
  EXAMPLE:
  # Define typed variable "v", read valueset from file.
  variable: v, Version, [/local/lxr/source/versions], [/local/lxr/source/defversion]

  # Define typed variable "a".  First value is default.
  variable: a, Architecture, (i386, alpha, m68k, mips, ppc, sparc, sparc64)

 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 :-)