From 1aa6f90a10794951365626830e8ebf29cf3736c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:54:46 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] configure: check directly for xapian compaction API

This is consistent with the check for FieldProcessor, and probably a bit
more robust.
---
 configure | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ba12c5a5..ab42f947 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -361,17 +361,20 @@ fi
 have_xapian_compact=0
 have_xapian_field_processor=0
 if [ ${have_xapian} = "1" ]; then
-    # Compaction is only supported on Xapian > 1.2.6
     printf "Checking for Xapian compaction support... "
-    case "${xapian_version}" in
-	0.*|1.[01].*|1.2.[0-5])
-	    printf "No (only available with Xapian > 1.2.6).\n" ;;
-	[1-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*)
-	    have_xapian_compact=1
-	    printf "Yes.\n" ;;
-	*)
-	    printf "Unknown version.\n" ;;
-    esac
+    cat>_compact.cc<<EOF
+#include <xapian.h>
+class TestCompactor : public Xapian::Compactor { };
+EOF
+    if ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS_for_sh} ${xapian_cxxflags} -c _compact.cc -o _compact.o > /dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+	have_xapian_compact=1
+	printf "Yes.\n"
+    else
+	printf "No.\n"
+    fi
+
+    rm -f _compact.o _compact.cc
 
     printf "Checking for Xapian FieldProcessor API... "
     cat>_field_processor.cc<<EOF
-- 
2.39.2