Re: [xml] Compilation errors for rngparser.c

[Philip Ludlam <nospam philipnet com>]

On 9 Feb, in message <20040209130211 GF16242 redhat com>
  Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:21:17PM +0000, Philip Ludlam wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When compiling rngparser.c (libxml2-2.6.5) I get the following errors:
> >
> > 1)
> > "rngparser.c", line 1441: Error: <function argument 1>: implicit cast of pointer to non-equal pointer
> > "rngparser.c", line 1445: Error: '=': implicit cast of pointer to non-equal pointer
> > "rngparser.c", line 1446: Error: '=': implicit cast of pointer to non-equal pointer
> > "rngparser.c", line 1447: Error: '=': implicit cast of pointer to non-equal pointer
> >
> > Casting to (const unsigned char *) stops the compiler from generating
> > the above errors (char defaults to signed here and I guess that's what
> > causing the problem). Patch attached.
>
>  Okay, applied :-)
>
> > 5)
> > "rngparser.c", line 1494: Error: undeclared name, inventing 'extern int xmlConvertCRNG_topLevel()'
> >
> > 6)
> > "rngparser.c", line 1513: Error: type disagreement for 'xmlConvertCRNG'
> > "rngparser.c", line 1513: Serious error: duplicate definition of 'xmlConvertCRNG'
> >
> > My text editor tells me that xmlConvertCRNG is defined twice:
> >   xmlConvertCRNG(const char *schemas, int len, const char *encoding) {
> >    (line 1436)
> >   xmlConvertCRNG(const char *URL, const char *encoding) {
> >    (line 1513)
> >
> >
> > In case it matters I don't use autoconf and the like here to build
> > libxml2.
>
>  I'm surprised rngparser.c ended up in the tarball, I tried to avoid this,
> it's not yet part of the library and not linked yet to other parts of the
> library. Don't compile it until you see that the compact Relax NG syntax
> support has been added in release notes :-)

I dunno if it is (in the tarball), but I'm sure it's tagged with
LIBXML2_2_6_5 in CVS.
(I can't check right now as I'm offline).

Yours,

Phil L.
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