[Slackbuilds-users] FYI on SlackBuild Recoll

[Eric Hameleers (SBo)]

B wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The SlackBuild page for Recoll has a note indicating:
> As of the time of writing, recoll depends on version
> 0.9.10 of
> xapian-core, the newer 1.0.0 release does NOT work
> with this version of recoll.  Else no
> incompatibilities are known.
> 
> The update I would like to share is that Recoll
> installed without any problems on Slackware 12 using
> the newest versions of Recoll and xapian-core.
> 
> I used recoll-1.10.0.tar.gz instead of
> recoll-1.8.1.tar.gz.  I edited the SlackBuild script
> to reflect the updated program version number.
> 
> I used xapian-core-1.0.4.tar.gz instead of
> xapian-core-0.9.10.tar.gz.  I edited the SlackBuild
> script to reflect updated version.
> 
> The following were unchanged from Slackbuilds:
> - Source:  unrtf_0.20.2.tar.gz
> - Source: antiword-0.37.tar.gz 
> 
> I haven't used recoll before yesterday.  So far I love
> it!
> Thanks for making a SlackBuild for recoll!

Indeed, the new Recoll source can work with xapian-core version 0.9.x
as well as version 1.0.x .
I built packages for the latest xapian-core and recoll and these work
flawlessly.

Eric