On Wed, Oct 05 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> It seems that no-one tried to compile without Xapian compact support
> since March of 2015, since that's when I introduced a syntax error in
> that branch of the ifdef.
>
> Given the choice of maintaining this underused branch of code, or
> bumping the Xapian dependency to a version from 2011, it seems
> reasonable to do the latter.
> ---

Works for me ;) +1