From cjsthompson at gmail.com Thu Jan 24 05:32:15 2013 From: cjsthompson at gmail.com (Christoph Thompson) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:32:15 +0100 Subject: [Expat-bugs] CMake build problems with expat 2.1.0 and a patch to fix them Message-ID: Hi, I ran into the following problems while trying to build expat 2.1.0 with CMake: * I couldn't set the directories for man pages and libraries. Some Linux distros such as Slackware put the man pages in /usr/man instead of /usr/share/man and on x86_64 libs go into /usr/lib64. It's useful when you can override the defaults from the command line like: cmake -DMAN_INSTALL_DIR=PATH:"/usr/man" -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=PATH:"/usr/lib64" So I made all this configurable instead of being hardcoded. * The pkgconfig file was not generated correctly for /usr/lib64 since it was hardcoding /usr/lib. Also it's nice when you can set the include dir so you can put the headers in /usr/include/expat for example. The exec_prefix is not 'bin', I don't know what it's used for, but all .pc files I have ever seen just set it to ${prefix}. So it seems safe to do that here too. * xmlwf couldn't be built because the compiler couldn't write the xmlwf executable at the root of the source because there was already a directory named xmlwf. The solution to that was to make another CMakeLists.txt inside the xmlwf directory with the part about building it. * The expat shared library wasn't built with the usual sonames. So I fixed that too. I hope you will find my patch helpful. Regards, C. Thompson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: expat-2.1.0-cmakefixes.patch Type: application/octet-stream Size: 3601 bytes Desc: not available URL: