<p dir="ltr">Hey Olly,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes I was using the xapian-core level configure all this while. It seemed to work for the API's but weirdly gave me problems for the tests.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So as you suggested, I used the top level configure and collate-test worked as expected. Im still not completely sure how configuring the tree in maintainer mode helps remove these problems. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for the help :D</p>