Install xapian in a virtualenv on Mac OS X using Homebrew.

install_xapian_inside_virtualenv_osx.sh

#/bin/bash

set -e

if [ -z "$(which brew)" ]; then
    echo "This script requires Homebrew."
    exit
fi

if [ -z "$VIRTUAL_ENV" ]; then
    echo "This script must be run inside a virtualenv"
    exit
fi
 
export VENV=$VIRTUAL_ENV
mkdir -p $VENV/packages && cd $VENV/packages

echo "Fetching xapian source"
brew fetch xapian
 
tar xzvf $(brew --cache xapian)
tar xzvf $(ls $(brew --cache)/xapian--bindings*)
 
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-core-*
./configure --prefix=$VENV && make && make install
 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VENV/lib
 
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-bindings-*
./configure --prefix=$VENV --with-python && make && make install
 
echo "Checking xapian installation:"
echo
python -c "import xapian"

test $? -eq 0 && echo successful || echo failure

Thanks a lot! This help me a lot. I was having a hard time configuring the xapian inside a virtualenv ;)

Thanks, it's working but had to replace line 24 with :
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-bindings-*

In my case I had to replace line 22 with:
tar xzvf $(ls $(brew --cache)/xapian-*)