--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -16893,7 +16895,7 @@
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # NOTE the $libdir hack at the end of the c[xx]flags.  Apparently F16 finds that clucene is not multilib-save and places some include files in /usr/lib[64]/
+if test "x$with_clucene" != "xno"; then
-with_clucene=no
 if test "x$CLUCENE2_LIBS" != x; then
    echo "clucene 2.x found - lucene searching options available"
    AM_CXXFLAGS="$AM_CXXFLAGS $CLUCENE2_CFLAGS -DUSELUCENE -DCLUCENE2 -I$libdir"
@@ -16914,6 +16912,11 @@
    echo "lucene searching options not available"
 fi
 fi
+else
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: excluding support" >&5
+$as_echo "clucene manually disabled - excluding support" >&6; }
+with_clucene="no"
+fi
 
 for ac_func in vsnprintf
 do :