Re: [gnome-db]Build problems

["Ian D . Stewart" <idstewart softhome net>]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:18:07AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> So, there are some solutions that I can think of:
> * keep it as it was (that is a non-libtool library, a simple static lib)
> and force people to use newest automake/autoconf/libtool. Before the
> change I just did, I found no problems when compiling. Anybody had any
> problem with that?
> * link gda applications against both libxml1 and libxml2 (don't know if
> this will cause any problem)
> * don't build the libxmlquery until we're using libxml2 everywhere. I would like to
> avoid this solution as much as possible, since I intend to start using
> this library in the near future
> 
> so, ideas, comments?

What exactly do libxml2 and libxslt provide that libxml does not?  How 
difficult would it be to design GDA/Gnome-DB to use the facilities of
libxml2/libxslt where available, but fallback to libxml(1) ?


Regards,
Ian

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