On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:59 -0800, Gertjan Hofman wrote:
> which was not installed. So I apt-get g++. I also installed some
> other packages to be able to use debian build tools.
> Suddenly all versions I am playing with run fine. It
> seems that some package I installed (without which
> 2.4.4 build fine) made the difference. 

On Ubuntu or Debian you'll probably want to install:
  build-essential libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev

Or, you can run the following command to install swish-e build-time
dependencies:
  sudo apt-get build-dep swish-e

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