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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:23:54AM +0100, Tobias Reif wrote:
> On Tue 2003-11-11 Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > If you had reused what others had debugged, i.e. reused libxml2 and
> > libxslt packages coming from your distribution,
> > or recompiled on your box based on the source RPM for the latest
> > version you would not have this problem.i
>
> I didn't want to confuse my package manager, I thought (based on
> experience) that installing locally (under my home dir) from source
> would be the strategy representing the least risk for dependency
> conflicts, since I might want to run several versions of xmllint and
> xsltproc, and many other tools depend on libxml.

 Okay, I see. Then the problems are mostly bootstrapping your environment.
This should work fine in practice.

> I simply wanted to install the latest xmllint and xsltproc with the
> least hassle, and the only problem I had was that I hadn't installed
> zlib-devel before that. The rest was general feedback, I thought that
> some of the data might be SuSE 9.0 specific for example.

  I think Karl Eichwalder from SuSE/Novell is subscribed so he should
be able to react if needed :-)

> I wasn't aware of the fact that you referred to choosing RPMs over the
> .tar.gzs.

  right I didn't really explained, my fault.

> I used words too strong, sorry. But based on previous private
> dicsussion I know that you're aware of the fact that sometimes you
> react a bit "rough".

  Right :-)

> > I will try to improve.
>
> Me too :)

  Excellent, now let's improve the code too :-)

Daniel

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