Re: [xml] Availability of libxm2-2.9.0 release candidate 1

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:51:31PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > > Makefile:949: recipe for target `gen_prog' failed
> > >
> > > Before that, there is:
> > >
> > > Found 1607 functions in libxml2-api.xml
> > > Found 55 functions in libxml2-python-api.xml
> > > Generated 889 wrapper functions, 557 failed, 216 skipped
> >
> > Humpf, thanks for the report. Daniel, would you mind looking at this ?
>
> (Please Cc: me if you'd like me to jump into a thread, otherwise
> it's all too easy to miss a nudge like this!)

  yeah, sorry, I forgot !

> Can't reproduce here. It's not a Python-version thing; I can run
> generator.py just fine with 2.4.4.
>
> (To Michael Ludwig: You didn't see a stack trace or anything? Could
> you poke around generator.py to see why it's returning non-zero?)
>
> Is there a reason why libxml2-py.c doesn't go into the distribution
> tarball? (It's specified as nodist_libxml2mod_la_SOURCES in
> python/Makefile.am.) I didn't address this earlier, but if the dist
> were to bundle everything in $(GENERATED)---and I don't see a reason
> why not--- end users who download a tarball wouldn't have to
> generate files at all, and this kind of problem wouldn't come up in
> the first place.

  I'm fine adding it to the tarball if people think it's better for
portability !

> I'd be happy to provide a patch, but the "nodist" question needs
> answering first...

  To be honnest I don't remember why it ended up that way, maybe because
since it's generated and was looking eas to regenerate once people
have Python installed, I didn't looked further.

Daniel

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