Re: [xml] Problem running testapi for libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:42:39PM -0500, ABeylin axsone com wrote:
> Hello Daniel, thank you for the quick reply.
> 
> On Sun, with the snapshot's source "testapi" still creates core, stack
> is attached below.

  I don't understand where, seems in snprintf but the output is unreadable
can you make sure you're compiling with debugging options or someone provides
a patch for Solaris.

> On HP, compilation fails with snapshot's source code, failure is
> attached below.

  Seems HAVE_SHLLOAD is defined, it was found but the associated #include
is missing (which one ?) so functions and macros are undefined.

> On AIX, the tests worked successfully, but for fun I attached the stack
> trace from the version 2.6.16

  Okay, that problem is solved.

> We are currently trying to port to libxml.
> We are building commercial software, and need to use a stable release of
> libxml.

  2.6.16 sounds fairly stable.

> Our preference is to build libxml ourselves, instead of downloading
> pre-built binaries. 
> How do I build a stable version on HP-UX/Sun and AIX platforms?  It has
> to be a versioned version (not snapshot).  Are any compilers or versions
> of compilers recommended?

  We don't do compiler recommendation. Sun ships libxml2 with Solaris.
In general using a more recent version get the associated bug fixes.

Daniel

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