[PATCH] configure: check directly for xapian compaction API

[David Bremner]

This is consistent with the check for FieldProcessor, and probably a bit
more robust.
---

This is really an independent cleanup, but it will probably not apply
cleanly without the rest of the series because of code movement.

 configure | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c48f7ce..03f28d5 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -359,17 +359,18 @@ 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} ${CXXLAGS} ${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
 
     printf "Checking for Xapian FieldProcessor API... "
     cat>_field_processor.cc<<EOF
-- 
2.7.0