[Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

[Stefano Iacus]

Duncan is working on this at lower level in the xml package code.
As you see on cran with XML version 95-3 which is still not optimal.  
All will be fixed in few days when Duncan has finished travelling  
around :))

Btw, it preferable to use libxml2 which builds and configs fine without  
problems.

stefano


On Giovedì, ott 9, 2003, at 16:42 Europe/Rome, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> 1. Just download the package and unpack it.
> 2. Use R INSTALL until it breaks
> 3. Then go to the src directory and give the gcc command below with  
> -Xlinker -m
> 4. Then use R INSTALL again
>
> There are not two definitions associated with the same symbol after  
> linking. This
> unpleasant hack uses the definition in Utils.o, as intended.  This  
> situation will
> persist until either Duncan puts this fix into XML or until Stefano  
> decides to go
> with two-level namespaces for Darwin/Aqua R packages.
>
> On Oct 9, 2003, at 7:22, Sean Davis wrote:
>
>> I am trying to build the XML package on MacOS.  I am using the fink  
>> installation of libxml-1.8.17.  The configuration information is:
>>
>> Configuration information:
>>
>> Libxml settings
>>
>> libxml include directory: /sw/include/gnome-xml
>> libxml library directory: -L/sw/lib -lxml -lz -lz  -lxml
>> libxml 2:                 no
>>
>> Compilation flags:         -I/sw/include/gnome-xml  
>> -I/sw/include/gnome-xml/libxml -DLIBXML -I/sw/include/gnome-xml
>> Link flags:               -L/sw/lib -lxml -lz -lz  -lxml
>>
>>
>>
>> Compiling produced the following error:
>> gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib  
>> -L/usr/local/lib -o XML.so DocParse.o EventParse.o ExpatParse.o  
>> HTMLParse.o RSDTD.o RUtils.o Utils.o XMLEventParse.o XMLTree.o  
>> -L/sw/lib -lxml -lz -lz  -lxml -lcc_dynamic
>> ld: multiple definitions of symbol _xmlParserError
>> Utils.o definition of _xmlParserError in section (__TEXT,__text)
>> /sw/lib/libxml.dylib(error.lo) definition of _xmlParserError
>> make: *** [XML.so] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'XML'
>>
>> I saw that back in September there was a discussion about fixing this  
>> problem that involved passing -m to the linker.  My questions are (1)  
>> what do I need to modify (given that I am using R INSTALL to keep  
>> things simple for myself) to use the -Xlinker -m option when linking  
>> XML.so and (2) does this actually work despite the fact that there  
>> are then two definitions associated with the same symbol?  I guess a  
>> third question follows from the second--are there other fixes that I  
>> can use to build the package?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Sean
>>
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