Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages

Elfyn McBratney elfyn@cygwin.com
Sat Jun 28 08:57:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Peter Ring wrote:

> I'm on vacation, checking mail through a cell phone, so please forgive the
> level of investigation --
>
> If you are going to rebuild libxslt and libxml2, I have a few wishes.
>
> As far as I remember, threading support was enabled, while it does not
> actually work; try running 'make check'.

I know about this, unfortunately it's not something I'm interested in debugging.

> xmlcatalog has a very useful interactive mode. It would be even more useful
> if readline was enabled.

I'll enable readline support.

> My request: please add '--with-history --without-threads' when configuring
> libxml2.

I won't do this immediately. The next patch-level (after the split) or
mainstream release will have these changes.

Elfyn
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