Re: [xml] Building libxml2 on solaris

[Rachael Churchill <rachael churchill linguamatics com>]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Uhm... doesn't Solaris 10 ship with libxml2 by default (Solaris 11 does
> ship libxml2 and I thought we backported that to Solaris 10 long ago) ?
>   
Possibly, but we're using a slightly modified version of libxml2, so we 
do need to build our own.
> 1. Try using -KPIC
> 2. Which compiler do you use ? If you use Sun Studio/Workshop/Fote make
> sure you use /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc for linking and not "ld" directly.
>   
> Try "-B dynamic". Solaris tries to avoid shipping static libraries since
> some releases and even /sbin/sh is no longer statically linked.
>   
Those all look like changes to the makefile. Should I be changing the 
makefile after the configure script has generated it? Or is there an 
option to the configure script to make it generate a makefile with those 
settings in it?

Thanks,
Rachael