[xml] Re: Release of libxml2-2.6.16

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

Hallo Daniel,

Am Freitag, 12. November 2004 um 10:56 schriebst du:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:15:34AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > 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 !
> >
> > Yes, I know I have the file here too, I don't know why gentest.py is
> > called.  It is probably a libtool / automake feature;)

>   There is two things:
>     1/ make may come to the rule that regeneration is needed, for example
>        if it find the timestamp of gentest.py older than testapi.c one,
>        that's normal, but will fail in a variety of situation.
>     2/ whether regeneration was possible or not it should build using
>        $(srcdir)/testapi.c

>  Maybe the 

>   testapi.c: gentest.py doc/libxml2-api.xml
>       ...

> lines in Makefile.am should really be rewritten

>   $(srcdir)/testapi.c: $(srcdir)/gentest.py $(srcdir)/doc/libxml2-api.xml
>       -@(if [ "$(PYTHON)" != "" ] ; then cd $(srcdir) $(PYTHON) gentest.py ; fi )

> this may be worth trying on your side.

This is actually working, I have released a cygwin verion now.
BTW, there was a bug discovered in xmlcatalog from libxml2-2.6.13,
<group> tags in the catalog were deleted when running it on a catalog
file including <group> tags.

Gerrit
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