Re: [xml] libxml incompatibility in version 2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:11:54AM -0500, Chema Celorio wrote:
> Yes, the problem was the headers.
>
> In my app I had "<gnome-xml/parse.h>" so it would not pick up
> the new headers. Changing it to "<libxml/parse.h>" fixed it.
>
> How about installing (at least for some time) 
> some headers inside "$prefix/include/libxml/gnome-xml" with one
> line :
> "#warning you shuold replace your inlcude line that has the gnome-xml
> reference to libxml"

  I don't see why you should not be able to have <gnome-xml/parse.h> and
<libxml/parse.h> installed at the same time.

> this will solve the problem in the best way. I am sure this will
> happen hundreds of times in the future :-).

  No the right way to do the test is at run time. Use the
LIBXML_TEST_VERSION macro, it will check that the shared lib version
is compatible with the header file used to compile. It's described at the end
of http://xmlsoft.org/upgrade.html

Daniel

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