Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk> writes: > > Even though xapian 1.4 is marked as stable, Ubuntu 16.04 has xapian 1.3.4 > installed. I'd rather not start hacking around updating xapian and > dependant packages since the whole point of me having this machine is to > use it as a stable baseline with other colleagues who I work with. > 16.04 also has xapian 1.2.22, so I'd suggest using that. You will miss out some newer features, but it should build fine.