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author | Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> | 2010-03-10 10:35:56 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> | 2010-03-10 10:35:56 +0100 |
commit | 743311bd91274f3d8ab3948158a7df454e008418 (patch) | |
tree | 9572bf6bbfce5d5696df349aeea35c87a7ebaa35 /INSTALL.libxml2 | |
parent | 120a269976f4198e54cc7b848dd78fca81bb9179 (diff) | |
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use autoreconf in autogen.sh
* autogen.sh: use autoreconf instead of the direct set of calls for
auto* updates
* INSTALL INSTALL.libxml2: migrate the INSTALL to INSTALL.libxml2 since
autoreconf copies a new INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL.libxml2 b/INSTALL.libxml2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fdf31f3b --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.libxml2 @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Extracted from the documentation: + http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio + +See also the generic INSTALL file for configure options + +Compilation + + 1.What is the process to compile libxml ? + + As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard": + + gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - + + cd libxml-xxxx + + ./configure --help + + to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper + + ./configure [possible options] + + make + + make install + + At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to + update your list of installed shared libs. + + At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning + by running + + make tests + + 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ? + + Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API + should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you + may find). + + However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use + the following libs: + + libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library + http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ + iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's + included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't + need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's + now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one + implementation of the library which source can be found here. + http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html + ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ + + 3.make tests may fail on some platforms + + Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the + value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print + the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation + process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem + +Daniel +veillard@redhat.com |