Re: expat & Xfree

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Alexander,

Okay, that makes me certain that we can turn this flag on.  I will add 
the flag soon.  I am not sure how quickly I will release new packages 
for this... it doesn't seem crucially important.

Harold

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>
> > When I checked for HasExpat in config/cf/, only two files came up:
> >
> > sco5.cf
> > X11.tmpl
> >
> >
> > HasExpat defaults to NO in X11.tmpl and there does not seem to be any
> > conditional cases depending upon other #defines that cause it to
> > automatically become YES on certain platforms.  Do you know if these
> > Linux distros are defining this in a host.def or if there are other
> > flags in either lib/Imakefile or lib/expat/Imakefile that are causing
> > expat not to be built when some other flag is set to YES?
>
>
> from SuSE XFree86 RPM Specfile:
>
> cat << EOF > config/cf/host.def
> #define LinuxDistribution       LinuxSuSE
> #undef  OSVendor
> #define OSVendor                SuSE
> #undef  DefaultOSName
> #define DefaultOSName           SuSE Linux
> [...]
> /* Freetype2 Support */
> #define HasFreetype2            YES
> /* fontconfig support */
> #define HasExpat                YES
>
> for Red Hat i've not found this define, but they do not provide libexpat
> in their packages.
>
> bye
>     ago
> NP: grauzone.03-04-14