Hi Boris,
At 09.53 08/08/2007 +0000, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
Hi,
I have a couple of questions/concerns about the new autotools-based
build system in the trunk (upcoming 3.0):
1. Why rename libxerces-c.so/.a to libxerces.so/.a? This makes the
job of supporting both 3.0 and older releases more complicated
(the interface differences are relatively easy to resolve with
the preprocessor).
The library name is specified in the autoconf script (I think), so
the name must have been a choice of James who wrote the script in the
first place. We can change it to be xerces-c if this helps the users.
2. Why factor out messages to a separate library (libXercesMessages)
that the application developer has to link to? This makes it more
difficult to support both 3.0 and older releases. Also, AFAICS,
this is not done for Windows builds. Can this at least be made
optional via a configure option? BTW, this library is not
installed (see below).
That library has always been there, when ICU is chosen as the message
loader (the choice is automatic if ICU is available). If you don't
need the extra features of ICU resource bundles, you should specify
--enable-msgloader-inmemory to have the strings stored inside the
Xerces library.
3. Why build all those libraries (libdom, libinternal, etc.)?
They are not installed so it seems their only purpose is
to take up space and slow down the build speed.
That's a side effect of having the sources in multiple
subdirectories; autoconf must create "convenience libraries" from
each folder (BTW, the libraries should be more; in fact the
combination Cygwin+MSVC doesn't work)
The last one is more of a bug report than a question: when
I try to install Xerces-C++, I get
No rule to make target `res-install', needed by `install'
in the src/xercesc/util/MsgLoaders/ICU/Makefile.in. It seems
the res-install target is left unimplemented there as well
as in src/xercesc/util/MsgLoaders/MsgCatalog/Makefile.in. Any
idea on what's going here?
Those makefiles have been manually ported to autoconf, and are still
missing a few cases; I'll see to fix the install part.
Thanks for testing the build,
Alberto
Thanks,
Boris
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Boris Kolpackov
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Open-Source, Cross-Platform C++ XML Data Binding
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