[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #361: Some --disable-backend-XXX option combinations fail

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#361: Some --disable-backend-XXX option combinations fail
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 Reporter:  olly          |       Owner:  olly    
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  1.2.1   
Component:  Build system  |     Version:  1.1.0   
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:          
Blockedby:                |    Platform:  All     
 Blocking:                |  
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Comment(by olly):

 Well, some of them now work.

 The rest seems to be a nightmare - replication uses lots of remote backend
 stuff, as do serialise methods.  I started to add #ifdef-s, but it seems
 too complex to be worthwhile, and is too easy to regress unless we're
 prepared to check all 32 build combinations regularly.  We can probably
 trim that down some, but it's likely to be
 at least 10 to cover combinations likely to be problematic.

 So I'm tending to think we should seriously consider removing these
 options.  They're useless for binary packaging (since somebody will want
 any given backend), so the only real use I can see is for people building
 a custom "small" Xapian for use of restricted hardware (e.g. embedded
 systems).  If we want to assist that, the best way is probably an option
 which gives you just one disk based backend, and perhaps a second which
 disables the remote backend and replication.  But perhaps we should worry
 about this if/when we actually have someone wanting it.  It seems nobody
 is regularly using the current options to disable backends as I've
 generally found them broken when I've tried them.

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