[Expat-discuss] Problems compiling expat 1.95.8 on Solaris8platform

[John.Hockaday at ga.gov.au]

Thanks Fred,

That makes me feel a bit better but I've had similar troubles with libxml2,
yaz, OpenJade and Zap so I still believe not following the standard install
path of /usr/local/ has something to do with it.  Especially when each bit of
software relies on linking to the previously one.

Anyway, many thanks to this list's subscribers for all your help.  It
reinforces my belief that open source is better supported than proprietary
software.

Thanks.


John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. [mailto:fdrake at acm.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 1:14 PM
> To: Hockaday John; expat-discuss at libexpat.org
> Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] Problems compiling expat 1.95.8 
> on Solaris8platform
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:46 pm, John.Hockaday at ga.gov.au wrote:
>  > Thanks so much for your help.  I'm sure the problem is 
> caused by our
>  > organisation's policy of not loading software into 
> /usr/local but your
>  > suggestion has got around the problem!
> 
> Actually, I think the problem is due to stupidity in the GNU 
> libtool.  
> Unfortunately, it's a tedious system, and the Expat 
> contributor who set this 
> up for us hasn't had time to take care of our use of this 
> tool for a while.  
> (Though he has started the second of two really cool jobs 
> he's had since he 
> first implemented this for us.)
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
> -- 
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
> 
>