RE: [xml] Use of 'strdup' in xmlmemory.c?

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:37 AM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> Subject: Re: [xml] Use of 'strdup' in xmlmemory.c?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:25:06AM +0100, Henke, Markus wrote:
> > >   Well as long as you have an ansi compiler this should 
> not be that
> > > hard (this uses ASCII for C strings encoding I hope).
> >  
> > Hope so, and indeed i'm a big step up the ladder since i've found
> > a workeround for a parser bug in HP C/iX compiler (see coming
> > post regarding that subject...).
> > But there is still a major problem that lets the 
> './configure' skript
> > generate inapplicable header files:
> > (From HP 3000 MPE/iX porting guide)
> > 
> > "At link time, unresolved external symbols are not returned 
> as an error
> > condition because MPE supports run-time binding to external 
> libraries."
> 
>   Dohhh. 

Well, it's supposed to be a feature...  8)

> > The result is that './configure' find each and every 
> function that it
> > scans, so the HAVE_... macros are all defined (many of them 
> erroneously).
> > At least IMHO there is a coherence...
> 
>   In that case, either use a different toolchain (seems gcc 
> is available if I believe
> http://www.bixby.org/mark/porting.html)

Yep, it's available. But i've to persuade our MPE admin to
install it and that's a tough job since there is no official
HP support for gcc...   8|

> or hardcode your config.h
> and include/libxml/xmlversion.h for MPE/iX and skip the 
> configure phase.

That's what i'm currently doing. Looks quite hopefully
(for the moment...)

Ciao, Markus

> Daniel
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