1. Extract everything from the distribution tarball (haven't you already?) and go to the sphinx subdirectory. (We are using version 2.0.1-beta here for the sake of example only; be sure to change this to a specific version you're using.)

    $ tar xzvf sphinx-2.0.1-beta.tar.gz
    $ cd sphinx

  2. Run the configuration program:

    $ ./configure

     

    /configure --with-mysql=/usr --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql

    Also, you may need another devel packages, not only mysql-devel.

     

    There's a number of options to configure. The complete listing may be obtained by using --help switch. The most important ones are:

    • --prefix, which specifies where to install Sphinx; such as --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx (all of the examples use this prefix)

    • --with-mysql, which specifies where to look for MySQL include and library files, if auto-detection fails;

    • --with-pgsql, which specifies where to look for PostgreSQL include and library files.

  3. Build the binaries:

    $ make

  4. Install the binaries in the directory of your choice: (defaults to /usr/local/bin/ on *nix systems, but is overridden with configure --prefix)

    $ make install