Re: [xml] built libxml and libxslt, possible bugs

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif pinkjuice com>]

On Tue 2003-11-11 Justin Fletcher wrote:
> That's the thing that configure's meant to detect, surely ? It
> tailors itself to your system. If you didn't have ZLib on the
> system, and it detected that was the case and turned off the ZLib
> support in the toolkit then surely there's nothing wrong with that.
> If you'd done the *xmllint -version it would tell you that it wasn't
> including ZLib. If you didn't want it auto-configuring, or want to
> force options, you can always change the config.h file (as I have to
> every time).

Seems sensible (although I can imagine other concepts which might be
more intuitive and obvious for some people).

> IIRC when you run Configure it does say that it's not going to use
> ZLib or something.

There is so much output running up the screen (configure;make;make
tests;make install for each of the packages) that I must have missed
that line.

> However, you said that the tests fail and I'm reasonably sure that
> all the tests I run here without ZLib work ok. So maybe I'm just
> confused.

There are test result lines (eg in libxml2-2.6.2/result/regexp/xpath)
which end in "Fail" but document passed tests (unrelated to libz
AFAICS), which indeed confuses.

Tobi

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