Re: [xml] Problems building libxml2 when files are read-only (because of source control)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:39:57PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > Most configure scripts are fine with this setup, but for libxml2 I'm
> > having problems.  It wants to modify the following files which are
> > included in the distribution:
> >
> > include/libxml/xmlversion.h
> > python/setup.py
> > COPYING
> > libxml2.spec
> > config.h.in
> >
> > But it can't do it because the files are readonly.  Anyone have a
> > solution to this?  (chmod-ing or checking out the files before building
> > isn't an option)
>
> What does the build log look like so we can see what commands are
> modifying the above files?

  Configure updates those files (basically to set-up @VERSION@),

Daniel

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