[Expat-discuss] VMWare Linux Build

[Karl Waclawek]

Melikian, Alex wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm new to expat. I tried installing it on a virtual Linux Machine
> (VMWare Red Hat Linux emulated on a Window XP), hence attempted the
> 'configure', 'make' and 'make install' commands. The 'configure' command
> ran w/o any problems, but when executing the 'make' command, the
> execution stopped with this error:
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> lib/xmlparse.c:77:2: error: #error memmove does not exist on this
> platform, nor is a substitute available.
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> Does this mean that expat cannot be installed on VMWare machines, or
> this a more common problem that can be worked around.
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Try commenting out the #ifndef HAVE_MEMMOVE block and rebuild.
If it builds OK and Exat works, the problem might be with configure.
In this case Greg Stein would likely know how to fix it.

Karl