[Python-Dev] how do I build pyexpat?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "FLD" == Fred L Drake, <fdrake@beopen.com> writes:

  FLD> Andrew Kuchling writes:
  >> That's a patch I made to the Makefile and submitted to James
  >> Clark.  For Modules/Setup.in, I can change it to explicitly list
  >> the 8 files from Expat that need to be linked to.  The problem is
  >> that one of the

  FLD>   It's not in the stable version I picked up last night; I'll
  FLD> dig up the experimental version today.

I downloaded version 1.1 from the expat home page.  The URL for the
download is ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip.  This version
hasn't changed in the last two weeks. 

The instructions Fred include worked almost just right.  I checked in
the corrected ar command and it looks good.

Jeremy