[xml] Building libxml2 for DGUX

[Ian Foster <Ian Foster vivista co uk>]

Is anyone currently using libxml2 on DGUX?

I've just been thrown into a project where a previous incumbent (now
departed) managed to compile and build the libxml2 libraries for a Data
General box. They left without documenting how this was done.

I'm now trying to use these libraries with a larger system (which has been
running successfully for weeks on Solaris) , and get runtime errors on DGUX
as follows:

(dbx) where
Frame 0, pc 0x80049d80 (realloc+988)
Frame 1, pc 0x8004a3ff (realloc+2651)
Frame 2, pc 0x8004986e (free+554)
Frame 3, pc 0x800495fe (malloc+74)
Frame 4, line 1109, routine xmlStrndup(cur=0x08056d84 -> "AA1537", len=6),
file parser.c
Error: Attempt to access invalid register, $edx.
Frame 5, line 1138, routine xmlStrdup(cur=), file parser.c
Error: Attempt to access invalid register, $ecx.
Error: Attempt to access invalid register, $edx.
Frame 6, line 1520, routine xmlStrcat(cur=, add=), file parser.c
Frame 7, line 947, routine xmlNodeListGetString(doc=0x080ded38,
list=0x080deea8, inLine=1), file tree.c

So it would be nice to have a known build of the libraries that we can run
dbx against. Unfortunately, having run the default ./configure command, a
subsequent 'make' yields the following:

[jock] /home/ianf/xml/libxml2-2.4.5) make
Makefile subshell.__DGUX__
UX:ksh: ERROR: syntax error at line 1 : `end of file' unexpected
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
UX:sed: ERROR: Unrecognized command: $(transform)
Make: line 481: syntax error.  Stop.
[jock] /home/ianf/xml/libxml2-2.4.5) UX:ksh: ERROR: make without going
through this Makefile.^J# To change the values of :  not found
UX:ksh: ERROR: config.status, edit :  not found
UX:ksh: ERROR: make);^J# (2) otherwise, pass the desired values on the :
not found
UX:awk: ERROR: Trying to access field 656
UX:awk: INFO: Input record number 1
UX:awk: INFO: Source line number 1
UX:awk: ERROR: Trying to access field 661
UX:awk: INFO: Input record number 1
UX:awk: INFO: Source line number 1
UX:ksh: ERROR: distdir:  not found
UX:ksh: ERROR: /=inst:  not found

If anyone can come up with a suggestion other than "move to another
OS/hardware platform", we would be extremely grateful.

Best wishes and kind regards,
Ian.



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