Re: [xml] Adding a build/configure *option* to use ICU converters

[Mark Rowe <mrowe apple com>]

Hi Jungshik,

On 26/09/2007, at 09:48, Jungshik Shin wrote:

> Some non-Gnome projects on non-Linux platforms use libxml2, but they
> also relyon ICU for character encoding conversion in the rest of the
> project. They end
> up having two sets of character encoding converters,  iconv and ICU
> converters, which can increase the download size significantly.
>
> For those projects, it'd be very nice to have a configuration option
> in libxml2 that allow them
> to use ICU converters rather than libiconv.
>
> I made a preliminary patch and uploaded it to bugzilla (
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480323 ).
> It works well on Windows, but I haven't yet managed to change
> configure.in so that it has an 'with-icu' option.

Nice work!  I've only skimmed over your patch, but it looks very  
similar to patch in Apple's version of libxml2 that I did a few months  
ago to have it optionally use ICU rather than iconv.  Our motivating  
reasons were also similar: the download size and memory footprint that  
having two libraries for character set conversion introduced.  Sadly I  
did not find the time to make our patch available so far, or it could  
have saved some duplication of effort here.

> I wonder what others think about this.  It'd be also nice if somebody
> could help me with patching configure.in and related files to add
> '-with-icu' option.

My patch includes the changes to allow this.  I'll send you a copy  
shortly that you can take the relevant snippet from.

Kind regards,

Mark Rowe