Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.6.16

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp familiehaase de>]

Hi Daniel,

Andreas, please see at the botttom of this mail.

>     A new release hit the server:
>       ftp://xmlsoft.org/ and GNOME FTP mirrors
>       http://xmlsoft.org/

I'm getting this error when building outside the sourcetree:

Making all in .
make[2]: Entering directory `/ftproot/pub/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16/.build'
/bin/python: can't open file 'gentest.py'
make[2]: [testapi.c] Error 2 (ignored)
if ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/ftproot/pub/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16 
-I. -I./include -I/ftproot/pub/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16/include 
-D_REENTRANT -DLIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED      -g0 -O3 -pedantic -W 
-Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment 
-Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses 
-Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline 
-Wredundant-decls -MT testapi.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/testapi.Tpo" -c -o 
testapi.o testapi.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/testapi.Tpo" ".deps/testapi.Po"; else rm -f 
".deps/testapi.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
gcc: testapi.c: No such file or directory
gcc: no input files
make[2]: *** [testapi.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/ftproot/pub/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16/.build'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/ftproot/pub/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16/.build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Suggested fix: rename gentest.py and doc/libxml2-api.xml to 
gentest.py.in doc/libxml2-api.xml.in and let configure generate them as 
output files in the buildtree (include with AC_OUTPUT), then it should work.

And what does this mean in configure.in?
"# keep on one line for cygwin c.f. #130896"

There are no problems with having this on several lines on my Cygwin, 
and I'm the Cygwin Libxml2 maintainer!  I use standard default 
configure.ac files every day never saw problems with this issue.  Maybe 
it doesn't work with MinGW or Windows, but hey, who has told the Andreas 
that it will work on Windows?


Gerrit
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