RE: [xml] Port of libxml for MPE/iX

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:58 PM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Subject: Re: [xml] Port of libxml for MPE/iX
>
>
> Well you asked about API additions where the encoding of the
> string passed to the API would be context dependant, [...]
Oh, never knew that i've such undecent wishes at all... 8) 

> and in my opinion it really a bad idea.
> I have been beaten with something similar in 
> libxml1 and I will never forget it !
Wasn't my intention to bring up bad memories!
 
> [...] If Bjorn doesn't react I would do this.
OK.
 
> [...] There is still 3 references in xmlIO.c,
> globals.c and xmlcatalog.c . It seems at least the first one 
> would need
> to be fixed.
The one in globals.c had made trouble when build on MPE, maybe
you could fix it too?

> > and several missing 'static' modifier, but that's rather
> > cosmetic.
>
>   Where ? Might be already fixed in 2.4.13 ... or not.
These are the two i know for shure, maybe there are more...
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-December/msg00060.html


> > AFAIK you've confirmed the patches/proposals (havn't had the
> > time to look at the CVS snapshots or version 2.4.13 by now).
>
>   I'm sure 2.4.13 integrated most of them.
Yummy!

>   No idea about this. Either your make is more pedantic than gnu make
> or the Makefile generation failed in mysterious ways.
I would bet on the last...
 
>   modifying configure is not reusable, it's generated.
Yeah.

> > I'm shure that this is a ugly hack, maybe one could make
> > this more elegant (conditional)...
>
>   what's the platform informations reported by configure ?
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shell/iX> ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... hppa1.0-hp-mpeix
---------------------------------------------
That's what you mean?

> > OK, i'll write down the things i've done to build libxml
> > on MPE and send it to the list. Maybe some steps already
> > are or will be obsolet, we'll see...
>
>   Okay, thanks !
Oh, i'm glad if i could contribute a poco, since i'm mostly
just benefit from libxml.
Probably i'll need some days to draft my stuff...

> Daniel

Ciao, Markus



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