Makefile to build Python bindings to Lingpipe (see http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/ for the code), uses JCC from Apache's PyLucene project (http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/ ) to do the heavy lifting. Tested on OSX.

Makefile

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.6
JCC=$(PYTHON) -m jcc.__main__

PKGVERSION=4.1.0
LINGPIPEDIR=/home/username/lingpipe-4.1.0/
JARS=$(LINGPIPEDIR)/lingpipe-4.1.0.jar
CLASSPATH=$(LINGPIPEDIR)/lib/junit-4.8.2.jar

GENERATE=$(JCC) $(foreach jar,$(JARS),--jar $(jar)) \
           $(JCCFLAGS) \
           --package java.lang java.lang.System \
                               java.lang.Runtime \
                               java.lang.IllegalStateException \
                               java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException \
           --package  java.util.HashMap \
                               java.util.HashSet \
                               java.util.NoSuchElementException \
                     java.text.SimpleDateFormat \
                     java.text.DecimalFormat \
                     java.text.Collator \
           --package java.net \
           --package java.io java.io.StringReader \
                             java.io.InputStreamReader \
                             java.io.FileInputStream \
           --exclude com.aliasi.xml \
           --exclude com.aliasi.xml.XHtmlWriter \
           --exclude com.aliasi.xml.t_XHtmlWriter \
           $(foreach classpath,$(CLASSPATH),--classpath $(classpath)) \
           $(foreach classpath,$(CLASSPATH),--include $(classpath)) \
           --python lingpipe \
           --files 4 \
           --version $(PKGVERSION)

generate: jars
        $(GENERATE)

jars: $(JARS)

compile: jars
        $(GENERATE) --build $(DEBUG_OPT)

install: jars
        $(GENERATE) --install $(DEBUG_OPT) $(INSTALL_OPT)

bdist: jars
        $(GENERATE) --bdist

all: jars compile
        @echo build of Lingpipe complete