RE: [xml] Some minor fixes (against 2.4.23)

["Robert Collins" <robert collins syncretize net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 3:49 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Some minor fixes (against 2.4.23)
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:51:17PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > The other three are needed to build and install the python 
> extensions
> > OOTB on cygwin. The library name is  needed for linking on platforms
> > that don't support unresolved symbols, and the VPATH fixes should be
> 
>   Now my problem is that I wonder on how many other platforms adding
> the direct link there is gnna break things. I'm also wondering how
> this gonna play with my RPM packaging where the python binding for all
> installed Pythons setups are generated by the same genarated Makefile,
> and that I'm pretty sure will break with your patch. 

OH. I was given the python lookup code by some python users - I'm not
one :}. I -hope- that it won't break anything. I'm also told that the
apparent cross-platform tool to build python mods is 'distutils', so may
have a patch for that soo.
 
>   Have you tested the Python bindings on Cygwin, do they really work ?

Apparently. I'm not a python user, but a couple of users have reported
that they do, with patches that would have broken other platforms.

Rob