I followed your INSTALL notes and got stuck at step one. After unpacking, I typed ./configure at the command line. That ended with the following error:
configure: error: cannot find ICU headers
Apologies for the poor state of documentation. It's not up to date and needs a careful tidying up. The error you report suggests that you don't have the ICU header files installed. On Debian, this means you haven't installed the icu-dev package, but what the equivalent under OS/X would be I'm afraid I don't know. Xaira has dependencies on icu and on xercesc and the best way to get these right seems to be to build both of them from source.
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I followed your INSTALL notes and got stuck at step one. After unpacking, I typed ./configure at the command line. That ended with the following error:
configure: error: cannot find ICU headers
I didn't get to the step where I get drink tea. Also the complete instructions are not to be found at: http://www.xaira.org/Downloads/installnotes.xml as stated in the INSTALL file.
Apologies for the poor state of documentation. It's not up to date and needs a careful tidying up. The error you report suggests that you don't have the ICU header files installed. On Debian, this means you haven't installed the icu-dev package, but what the equivalent under OS/X would be I'm afraid I don't know. Xaira has dependencies on icu and on xercesc and the best way to get these right seems to be to build both of them from source.