Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.6.16

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:45:38PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 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'

  Hum, testapi.c should be in the dource dir, even if rebuilding fails
it should still be there for compilation.

> 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.

 I disagree. The fact that you can't regenerate the C file should not prevent
compiling it because it should be present in $(srcdir) anyway.
  paphio:~/XML -> tar tvzf libxml2-2.6.16.tar.gz | grep testapi.c
  -rw-rw-r-- 50138/69    1317100 2004-11-09 17:12:04 libxml2-2.6.16/testapi.c
  paphio:~/XML ->
Now you need to understand why your make didn't found it in $(srcdir)
that's where the problem is !

> 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?

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130896
  it broke, and it's not that old.

Daniel

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