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[Jim]

Olly Betts wrote:
> The bootstrap script will ignore any directories without a configure.ac
> or configure.in, so you can just delete swig and xapian-bindings if you
> don't want them.  If you want to be able to update the tree without all
> the files reappearing each time, then "svn rm" on the configure.ac and
> configure.in files is simplest.  You can also play tricks with "svn
> switch".
>
> It's possible to do the work of bootstrap by hand, but it's fiddly and
> somewhat error-prone (which is why I wrote the script to do it) so I'm
> afraid you're on your own if you take that approach.
>   
I didn't do it 'cause I wanted to, I did it as a "well, what do I try 
next" step.  :)
> The easiest approach of all is to use the snapshot tarballs, especially
> if you aren't wanting to update the code to SVN HEAD regularly.
>   
OK that worked.

Thanks, Jim.
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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