Re: Buildproblems on OSX 10.3 due to libxml2

On 28/2/06 21:45, "OpenMacNews" <openmacnews(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> hi,
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>> Thanks for that. Given the fun I¹ve had getting it to work, I¹ve
>> decided not
>> to change the bootstrap script at the moment, to avoid causing others
>> the
>> same pain. I have added AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to configure.ac.in (yes, I
>> know you
>> say you don¹t need it at the moment, but it won¹t hurt as far as I¹m
>> aware)
>> as well as the automake Rforeign¹ option in Makefile.am which will
>> hopefully
>> help anyone who prefers to use autoreconf as you do. Please let me
>> know if
>> there¹s anything else that might help without breaking the bootstrap.
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> i hear you; thx for your time/effort! :-)
>
> _but_ ... just to be clear:
>
> the point of my last post was that it worked w/o problem ... autoconf
> did not break the bootstrap, or the build/execute.
>
> at the moment, a fresh 'rinse-n-repeat' w/ r5036 + a (the?)
> autoreconf-mod to bootstrap is exec'ing just fine.

Yup, got that.

> true, not a hugely important issue ... but i do not-so-rhetorically
> wonder alound -- if (and it's an unclear "if", i know) Darwinports has
> introduced some complicating artifacts, what's to say that there aren't
> others ...
>
> which is why i've voted with my feet to avoid Darwinports.
>
> NOT my intent to start any sort of flamewar ... just raising a point to
> consider.

:-)

Cheers, Dave