Re: [xml] Mac OS X Binaries

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:24:23AM +1000, Steve Ball wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> You wrote:
> >> Please note that I not yet done exhaustive testing on these
> >> binaries.  They were built on my shiny new Mac Book Pro (Intel
> >> processor) and I am not 100% certain whether the swap in endianness
> >> on the PowerPC architecture will be a problem.  Please report any
> >> problems that you might have (on either architecture) to me at
> >> mailto:Steve Ball explain com au 
> >
> >   Did you need any patch ?
> 
> Not at this stage - everything compiled without any modifications.  I  
> was wondering whether you would like to add the XCode project files  
> to the source repository?

  if it's not too big why not, especially if it's a text format which can
be patched.

> I compiled the tests for libxml2 and ran them on both the Mac Book  
> Pro (Intel) and a PowerBook (PPC).  All tests passed... well, almost;  
> there was one error reported but the message said "Specific platform  
> thread support not detected" so I presume that this means threading  
> may not be available.

  Strange, I would expect pthreads to be available, probably worth exploring.

> For libxslt, I haven't run the tests yet on either platform.  Once I  
> do that I'll report on success or failure.  I'm not anticipating any  
> problems (if there were going to be problems I'd have thought they  
> would manifest themselves in the libxml2 code), but you never know...

  okay, thanks,

Daniel

-- 
Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/
Daniel Veillard      | virtualization library  http://libvirt.org/
veillard redhat com  | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine  http://rpmfind.net/