XML package

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> There are some problems with XML under OS X, nothing serious,
> but manual intervention is required.
>
> 1. For some reason the package has problems matching up the
> proper include and lib files for xml or xml2. If I install a fresh
> libxml2 and point the environmental variables to it, it still
> complains about mismatched header and lib files,
> which suggests, perhaps, that the test in configure uses something
> system
> specific. It works if I point explicitly to the include files for xml1.
> Both xml1 and xml2 are in /sw, because they come from fink. Maybe
> use xmlConf.sh or xml2Conf.sh
>
> 2. xmlParserError is defined in libxml, but Utils.o tried to override
> it with a new definition. That does not work in OS X, unless one
> specifies explicitly that that is what one wants. Adding "-Xlinker
> -m" to the link of XML.so indicates we need the first definition we
> come across, which is the one in Utils.o in this case. And that is
> what is intended.

Same problem under Windows, which I can only solve (at least when
statically loading libxml2) by building a version of error.c (from
libxml2) without xmlParserError.  It's really a design fault in libxml2:
the replaceable parts should be in separate moodules.


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