Re: [xml] configure options questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:47:44AM +0000, Balint Joo wrote:
[...]
> while I developed on Linux. However, now on our target platform
> I have come accross a segfault which came in xmlFreeInputStream,
> which was called by xmlParseMemory on  some internal data structure.

  Hum, no idea where this might come from...

> However, I thought libxml-2.5.11 is rather old, so I downloaded
> 2.6.6. Imagine my surprise to see the explosion in configure
> options,the search for a Fortran compiler etc.

  That's just auto* tools evolution nothing to be afraid about.

> I also noticed two new options:
>
>       --with-minimum
> and   --with-legacy
>
> Could someone please explain which API's are considered
> legacy (I may need to update my wrappers appropriately

  everything which was flagged as deprecated in 2.5 I think,
see legacy.c . Also 2.6.x comes with SAX2 see testSAX.c for an
example.

> to use the new non legacy APIs). Also what features / other
> options does --with-minimum imply?

  --with-minimum compile with only what cannot be removed from the
library core. It's equivalent to switching off all optional configure
flags listed in configure --help.

Daniel

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