got rid of STRIPCHARS compile-time variable to make the code more readable, and corresponding configure option. + make sure that CONFDIR from environment gets translated to absolute path

src/common/autoconfig.h.in

@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@
 /* Use multiple threads for indexing */
 #undef IDX_THREADS
 
-/* Remove case and accents from terms */
-#undef RCL_INDEX_STRIPCHARS
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files. */
 #undef STDC_HEADERS
 

src/common/rclconfig.cpp

@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ using namespace std;
 
 // Static, logically const, RclConfig members are initialized once from the
 // first object build during process initialization.
-#ifndef RCL_INDEX_STRIPCHARS
+
 // We default to a case- and diacritics-less index for now
 bool o_index_stripchars = true;
-#endif
+
 string RclConfig::o_localecharset; 
 
 bool ParamStale::needrecompute()
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ RclConfig::RclConfig(const string *argcnf)
     } else {
 	const char *cp = getenv("RECOLL_CONFDIR");
 	if (cp) {
-	    m_confdir = cp;
+	    m_confdir = path_canon(cp);
 	} else {
 	    autoconfdir = true;
 	    m_confdir = path_cat(path_home(), ".recoll/");
@@ -274,13 +274,11 @@ bool RclConfig::updateMainConfig()
 	FsTreeWalker::setNoFnmPathname();
     }
 
-#ifndef RCL_INDEX_STRIPCHARS
     static int m_index_stripchars_init = 0;
     if (!m_index_stripchars_init) {
 	getConfParam("indexStripChars", &o_index_stripchars);
 	m_index_stripchars_init = 1;
     }
-#endif
 
     return true;
 }

src/common/rclconfig.h

@@ -319,9 +319,8 @@ class RclConfig {
 // stripped of accents and case or a raw one. Ideally, it should be
 // constant, but it needs to be initialized from the configuration, so
 // there is no way to do this. It never changes after initialization
-// of course. When set, it is supposed to get all of recoll to behave like if
-// if was compiled with RCL_INDEX_STRIPCHARS
-#ifndef  RCL_INDEX_STRIPCHARS
+// of course. Changing the value on a given index imposes a
+// reset. When using multiple indexes, all must have the same value
 extern bool o_index_stripchars;
-#endif
+
 #endif /* _RCLCONFIG_H_INCLUDED_ */