On building the "recoll" executable, the build system correctly links with -lxapian-1.3. However, when building Python extension, it uses -lxapian and fails with "cannot find -lxapian" Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 355594 [details] emerge --info recoll
Created attachment 355596 [details] build log
Same situation on my box, just to confirm.
It seems this bug fixed in recoll-1.19.5. It emerges fine by just renaming the recoll-1.18.2 to 1.19.5 in tree. Please bump the recoll to the new version 1.19.5.
+ 17 Sep 2013; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +recoll-1.19.5.ebuild: + Bump for #480600 #480470