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 # libxapian
 
+Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
+It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.
+
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+Name:          libxapian
+Version:       1.2.12
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       An Open Source Search Engine Library released under the GPL
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://www.xapian.org
+Source:        http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/%{version}/xapian-core-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       GPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+BuildRequires: libgcc
+BuildRequires: libstdc++6-devel
+BuildRequires: libuuid-devel
+BuildRequires: libz-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRequires: perl
+BuildRequires: graphviz
+BuildRequires: tetex
+BuildRequires: doxygen
+BuildRequires: help2man
+BuildRequires: valgrind
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
+It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.
+
+%package devel
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Summary:       Static libraries and headers for %{name}
+Requires:      %{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It supports 
+the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators,
+
+This package contains static libraries and header files need for development.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n xapian-core-%{version}
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall
+
+# remove documentation
+rm -fr %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc
+
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%post   -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/*
+%dir %{_includedir}/xapian
+%{_includedir}/xapian/*.h
+%{_includedir}/*.h
+%{_libdir}/*.a
+%{_libdir}/*.la
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%{_datadir}/aclocal/*.m4
+%dir %{_libdir}/cmake/xapian
+%{_libdir}/cmake/xapian/xapian-config-version.cmake
+%{_libdir}/cmake/xapian/xapian-config.cmake
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%doc ChangeLog NEWS README
+%doc ChangeLog.examples docs/*.html docs/*.pdf docs/apidoc/html HACKING
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Sep 04 2012 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.2.12-1mamba
+- update to 1.2.12
+
+* Tue Nov 18 2008 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.0.9-1mamba
+- update to 1.0.9
+
+* Wed Apr 25 2007 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org> 0.9.10-1mamba
+- package created by autospec