[PATCH] lib: work around xapian bug with get_mset(0,0, x)

[David Bremner]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> On Fri 2018-04-06 08:43:07 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> At least Fedora28 triggers this Xapian bug due to some toolchain change .
>>
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546162
>>
>> The underlying bug is fixed in xapian commit f92e2a936c1592, and
>> should be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6
>
> is there any way that we can apply this change only if we detect that
> we're running with an unfixed version of Xapian?
>
>       --dkg

It's possible, but I think we'd need a new configure check, and some
ifdefs. We could consider doing that later, but I don't think it's the
right approach for a bugfix release.

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