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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH] configure: check directly for xapian compaction API\r
+Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:55:14 -0300\r
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+This is consistent with the check for FieldProcessor, and probably a bit\r
+more robust.\r
+---\r
+\r
+This is really an independent cleanup, but it will probably not apply\r
+cleanly without the rest of the series because of code movement.\r
+\r
+ configure | 21 +++++++++++----------\r
+ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/configure b/configure\r
+index c48f7ce..03f28d5 100755\r
+--- a/configure\r
++++ b/configure\r
+@@ -359,17 +359,18 @@ fi\r
+ have_xapian_compact=0\r
+ have_xapian_field_processor=0\r
+ if [ ${have_xapian} = "1" ]; then\r
+- # Compaction is only supported on Xapian > 1.2.6\r
+ printf "Checking for Xapian compaction support... "\r
+- case "${xapian_version}" in\r
+- 0.*|1.[01].*|1.2.[0-5])\r
+- printf "No (only available with Xapian > 1.2.6).\n" ;;\r
+- [1-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*)\r
+- have_xapian_compact=1\r
+- printf "Yes.\n" ;;\r
+- *)\r
+- printf "Unknown version.\n" ;;\r
+- esac\r
++ cat>_compact.cc<<EOF\r
++#include <xapian.h>\r
++class TestCompactor : public Xapian::Compactor { };\r
++EOF\r
++ if ${CXX} ${CXXLAGS} ${xapian_cxxflags} -c _compact.cc -o _compact.o > /dev/null 2>&1\r
++ then\r
++ have_xapian_compact=1\r
++ printf "Yes.\n"\r
++ else\r
++ printf "No.\n"\r
++ fi\r
+ \r
+ printf "Checking for Xapian FieldProcessor API... "\r
+ cat>_field_processor.cc<<EOF\r
+-- \r
+2.7.0\r
+\r