RE: [xml] Port of libxml for MPE/iX

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:59 PM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> Subject: Re: [xml] Port of libxml for MPE/iX
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:41:08PM +0100, Henke, Markus wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > although i'm "...apparently don't dare looking at the API,
> > code, docs or answers..." (sic!)
>
>  Okay, that was a bit harsh. Sorry about that but re-sending
> the same issue just got on my nerve.

OK, let's forget it!  8)

> And I don't want to change the decision to move all APIs to
> UTF8 (except the very few ones dedicated to encoding support).

Clear, i never wanted to ask for an API _change_ (as i guessed,
there where some misconceptions, maybe it's my poor english...8)
I'm shure you have good & weighty reasons for your design
decisions.
 
> > [...]
>
>   Well the simplest is to send patches for those changes
> and ask for feedback on those.

Oh, i've done so. But the arbitrative changes rather
concern the 'trio' code, i'm not shure what has become of it:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00031.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-November/msg00020.html

The changes to libxml a rather minor, that is the use of 'strdup'
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00054.html
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00056.html)
resp.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00017.html

and several missing 'static' modifier, but that's rather
cosmetic.
AFAIK you've confirmed the patches/proposals (havn't had the
time to look at the CVS snapshots or version 2.4.13 by now).

> If really there is some
> patches which can't be integrated or special instructions
> needed for that platform then one can add a directory for
> those like we did for VMS and MacOs.

OK. BTW, seems that there are some parallels between VMS and
MPE WRT the build process of libxml...

> > Unfortunately 'make install' fails, i havn't a clue why
> > (there is a posting WRT that question).
>
>   Hum, where, I don't remember.

No problem, i do :)
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00062.html

> > Additionally there's is a serious problem concerning the
> > MPE 'cc' compiler that won't return unresolved external
> > symbols as an error at link time, but i hope i can
> > provide a workaround soon (for the moment we've to
> > manually edit the generated 'config.h').
>
>   I see so basically configure tests just don't work for that
> platform.

Yep!

> That could be taken care from the configure.in script
> or by keeping config.h.MPEiX somewhere with appropriate
> instructions.

Yep, i could provide that config.h.MPEiX, but setting the
right conditionals in config.h won't be sufficient since
the 'configure' skript also sets a 'NEED_TRIO' conditional
that influences the link process in 'make'.
Actualy i've modified the 'configure' skript to hardcoded
enable trio support:

----------------------------------------------------------
6537a6544,6546
  else
    echo "$ac_t""no" 1>&6
  NEED_TRIO=1
  fi
  done

+ # ORDAT/HEA/19.12.2001
+ # If compiling with HP C/iX on MPE
+ NEED_TRIO=1

  echo $ac_n "checking for gethostent""... $ac_c" 1>&6
----------------------------------------------------------

I'm shure that this is a ugly hack, maybe one could make
this more elegant (conditional)...

> > I'll also give an detailed description of the steps that
> > are necessary to build libxml2 on MPE if someone wants
> > to do so (which is rather unlikely, but who knows...).
>
>   Just send them, and it may end up as a specific subdir for
> that system.
 
OK, i'll write down the things i've done to build libxml
on MPE and send it to the list. Maybe some steps already
are or will be obsolet, we'll see...

> Daniel

Ciao, Markus



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Markus Henke



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