Re: [xml] Mac OS X Binaries

[Daniel Macks <dmacks netspace org>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:24:23AM +1000, Steve Ball wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> You wrote:
> > > Please note that I not yet done exhaustive testing on these
> > > binaries.  They were built on my shiny new Mac Book Pro (Intel
> > > processor) and I am not 100% certain whether the swap in endianness
> > > on the PowerPC architecture will be a problem.  Please report any
> > > problems that you might have (on either architecture) to me at
> > > mailto:Steve Ball explain com au 
> >
> >   Did you need any patch ?
>
> I compiled the tests for libxml2 and ran them on both the Mac Book  
> Pro (Intel) and a PowerBook (PPC).  All tests passed... well, almost;  
> there was one error reported but the message said "Specific platform  
> thread support not detected" so I presume that this means threading  
> may not be available.

I just ran the test suite on fink's libxml2-2.6.27 package and did not
get that thread-detection message. Steve, how exactly did you run the
tests? I did 'make check' from the build directory after compiling and
installing using normal autoconf tools on OS X 10.3 (powerpc), not as
an XCode project. DanielV, where specifically should we look for
different tokens that would account for the differing test behavior?
Threading is indeed supported on OS X and ./configure reports (with no
thread-related flags):

Enabling multithreaded support
checking pthread.h usability... yes
checking pthread.h presence... yes
checking for pthread.h... yes
checking for pthread_join in -lpthread... yes

IIRC, some of the normal linuxish flags one uses are not correct, so
if the tests are doing funny flag things, but I didn't look into the
test suite to see what flags control the threading there.

dan

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