Re: [xml] libxml2 on zos.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:06:06AM -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote:
> I see that the configure scripts are set up to recognize zos as a
> platform for this library.  I've compiled it on zos 1.4 but it doesn't
> seem to be functional there.  Because the parser.c file has embedded
> literals for things like '<' and '>' and the source has been compiled on
> an ebcdic machine it fails to parse a utf8 document. 
> The only way I can think of to deal with this is to turn conversion of
> literals off in the compilation ... to see what happens.  I'll try that
> today, but in the meantime I'm curious if anyone out there is using this
> library on zos?
> Your feed back would be appreciated.

  My recollection is that a similar problem was raised once
when compiling on MVS and the solution turned out to update the
compiler to get a compiler flag support. But it was a few
years ago and I don't remember the exact details.

Daniel

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