expat-1.95.1: build comments

[Greg Stein]

I've entered a reference to this email into Expat's bug tracker at
SourceForge. We should have it fixed in the next release.

Thank you very much for the detailed information!

Cheers,
-g

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:09:06PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I've made build attempts for expat-1.95.1 on these platforms:
> 
> 	Sun SPARC		Solaris 2.7
> 	Sun SPARC		GNU/Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 (Red Hat 6.2)
> 	SGI Origin 200		IRIX 6.5
> 	Intel Pentium III	GNU/Linux 2.2.17-14smp (Red Hat 6.2)
> 	Intel Pentium II	FreeBSD 4.1.1
> 	IBM SP/2		AIX 4.3.2.0
> 	IBM PowerPC		AIX 4.2
> 	HP/Intel IA-64		GNU/Linux 2.2.17-14smp (Red Hat 6.2) [via HP NUE emulator on IA-32]
> 	HP 9000/712		HP-UX 10.20
> 	DEC Alpha		GNU/Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 (Red Hat 6.2)
> 	Compaq/DEC Alpha	OSF/1 4.0F
> 	Apple Power Mac 233MHz	GNU/Linux 2.2.15pre9
> 	Apple Macintosh PPC G3	Rhapsody 5.6
> 	Apple Macintosh PPC G3	Darwin 1.3.3
> 
> They were successful on most, but there are few (likely) easy-to-fix
> problems:
> 
> (1) The Makefile should have a check target, even it if just a dummy one:
> 
> 	check:
> 		@echo This package does not yet have an installation suite
> 
>     There should also be other GNU standard Makefile targets,
>     including all, distclean, mostlyclean, maintainer-clean, and
>     uninstall.  See the Makefile standards in emacs help node
>     "(Standards) Standard Targets".
> 
>     Once those are in place, then one can say
> 
> 	    ./configure && make all check install
>     or
> 	    ./configure --prefix=/some/other/dir && make all check install
> 
>     everywhere.  These recipes already work for almost all GNUware
>     developed in the last five years or so.
> 
> (2) The private typedef for stack_t in engine.[ch] conflicts with a
>     typedef in system header files on at least IBM AIX 4.x.  I had to
>     make source code changes to work around that problem: I just
>     renamed stack_t to Stack_t, but expat should have a more
>     distinctive name for that type.
> 
> (3) "make distclean" does not reduce the distribution directory to its
>      original state:  I find these left over
> 
> 	% find . -mtime -1 -type f
> 	./lib/xmlparse.B
> 	./lib/xmltok.B
> 	./lib/xmlrole.B
> 	./config.cache
> 	./Makefile
> 
>     It is imperative to remove config.cache and Makefile, since they
>     are tuned by configure to a specific environment.
> 
> (4) Compilation on SGI IRIX 6.5 with c89 produces these failures:
> 
> 	c89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPACKAGE=\"expat\"
> 		-DVERSION=\"expat_1.95.1\" -I. -I.. -g
> 		-Wp,-MD,.deps/xmlparse.pp -c xmlparse.c  -DPIC -o
> 		.libs/xmlparse.lo
> 	cc-1574 c89: ERROR
> 	  The definition of macro %sq is not valid.
> 	cc-1005 c89: ERROR
> 	  The source file ".deps/xmlparse.pp" is unavailable.
> 	2 catastrophic errors detected in the compilation of ".deps/xmlparse.pp".
> 
> 	c89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPACKAGE=\"expat\"
> 		-DVERSION=\"expat_1.95.1\" -I. -I.. -g -Wp,-MD,.deps/xmltok.pp
> 		-c xmltok.c -DPIC -o .libs/xmltok.lo
> 	cc-1574 c89: ERROR
> 	  The definition of macro %sq is not valid.
> 	cc-1005 c89: ERROR
> 	  The source file ".deps/xmltok.pp" is unavailable.
> 	2 catastrophic errors detected in the compilation of ".deps/xmltok.pp".
> 
> 	c89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPACKAGE=\"expat\"
> 		-DVERSION=\"expat_1.95.1\" -I. -I.. -g
> 		-Wp,-MD,.deps/xmlrole.pp -c xmlrole.c -DPIC -o
> 		.libs/xmlrole.lo
> 	cc-1574 c89: ERROR
> 	  The definition of macro %sq is not valid.
> 	cc-1005 c89: ERROR
> 	  The source file ".deps/xmlrole.pp" is unavailable.
> 	2 catastrophic errors detected in the compilation of ".deps/xmlrole.pp".
> 
>    I was able to do the build by switching to gcc.
> 
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