Re: [xml] Mac OS X Binaries

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:20:45PM -0400, Daniel Macks wrote:
> 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 ?
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I just ran the test suite on fink's libxml2-2.6.27 package and did not
> get that thread-detection message. Steve, how exactly did you run the
> tests? I did 'make check' from the build directory after compiling and
> installing using normal autoconf tools on OS X 10.3 (powerpc), not as
> an XCode project. DanielV, where specifically should we look for
> different tokens that would account for the differing test behavior?
> Threading is indeed supported on OS X and ./configure reports (with no
> thread-related flags):
> 
> Enabling multithreaded support
> checking pthread.h usability... yes
> checking pthread.h presence... yes
> checking for pthread.h... yes
> checking for pthread_join in -lpthread... yes

  That looks just fine to me. If the last part exercizing threads and catalogs
of runtest passes then it should basically be just fine.

Daniel

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