Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.5.9 - Windows compilation

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:35:51PM +0800, William M. Brack wrote:
> On Mon, August 11, 2003 17:59 +0800 Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:33:47AM +0800, William M. Brack wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >   For anyone wanting to compile this release under Windows, there
> > > is
> > > a bug (already corrected in CVS).  It is easy to fix - just edit
> > > the file libxml2.def.src and make the following 2 corrections:-
> > [...]
>
> > Since libxml2.def.src is automatically generated, I think we should
> > add a default rule in the existing makefiles to rebuild it
> > automatically.
> > Since adding Makefile.am and co. in win32 is likely to generate more
> > troubles, I think simply adding a rule in the doc/Makefile.am based
> > on libxml2-api.xml and $(srcdir)/../win32/defgen.xsl might be the
> > simplest
> > way to avoid such problem in the future, what do you think ?
>
> Well, I'm very much in favour of any automation, but there is one
> small problem - the generation requires an xslt transformation, and
> I don't think it's reasonable to require anyone wanting to compile
> under Windows to have xsltproc previously installed (in fact, there
> is a "chicken and egg" problem for fresh installs).  So, it seems to
> me that we can't get away from including a pre-generated copy of
> libxml2.def.src; the best we can do is check within the doc Makefile
> whether xsltproc is installled and, if it is, regenerate
> libxml2.def.src whenever libxml2-api.xml is regenerated.  Does that
> sound reasonable?

  Yep same as the generation of the web pages in the doc/Makefile.am
If there is an installed xsltproc in /usr/bin and if the target needs to be 
rebuild, use it, otherwise, ignore. The goal is mostly to make sure I
don't release not up-to-date stuff :-)

Daniel

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