RE: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.4.21

["Igor Zlatkovic" <izlatkovic daenet de>]

Hello Peter,

> Igor,
>
> let my guess once more on this problem.
>
> It is so stupid, that we should only look for the most
> stupid solution, and it will work.
>
> My next try:
>
> Use an additional .c file which handles all
> the LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED etc the
> other way around than the real code, to define
> dummys for all symbols not defined by the main
> code.
>
> Now you can use ctags to extract all symbols and to
> produce a .def or .def.src file.
>
> Hmmm?!

That would work and would succeed in building both .def and .def.src.
Unfortunately, whenever a public symbol is added, removed or changed, we
would have to update the .c file. Well, that is exactly what we do now
with the .def.src file, so it would not be a real progress :-)

Ciao
Igor