Re: commit -- autoconf changes


Subject: Re: commit -- autoconf changes
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 04:10:52 CDT


On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Sam TH wrote:

 Hi Sam,

 I think it would be nice if we were searching for libxml2 first - it's much
mature and featurefull parser than expat, and it has functionality critical
for CJK users (ability to support their encodings in xml files). Are there any
good reasons to try expat first?

> A bunch of autoconf changes, the autoconf build should work again.
>
> --enable-libxml2 is gone. Normally, you should just forget about XML
> parser options, and it will do the right thing.
>
> The search order is:
>
> 1. Shared expat
> 2. Shared libxml2
> 3. Expat as a peer to the source tree
>
> If you want to override the options, you can use --with-expat, which
> skips step 2, or --with-libxml2, which skips step 1. Step 3 cannot be
> skipped. At the end of configure, it should tell you what XML parser
> you will be using.
>
> Now to detect more things.
>
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad



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