On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:20:45PM -0400, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:24:23AM +1000, Steve Ball wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > You wrote: > > >> Please note that I not yet done exhaustive testing on these > > >> binaries. They were built on my shiny new Mac Book Pro (Intel > > >> processor) and I am not 100% certain whether the swap in endianness > > >> on the PowerPC architecture will be a problem. Please report any > > >> problems that you might have (on either architecture) to me at > > >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Did you need any patch ? > > > > I compiled the tests for libxml2 and ran them on both the Mac Book > > Pro (Intel) and a PowerBook (PPC). All tests passed... well, almost; > > there was one error reported but the message said "Specific platform > > thread support not detected" so I presume that this means threading > > may not be available. > > I just ran the test suite on fink's libxml2-2.6.27 package and did not > get that thread-detection message. Steve, how exactly did you run the > tests? I did 'make check' from the build directory after compiling and > installing using normal autoconf tools on OS X 10.3 (powerpc), not as > an XCode project. DanielV, where specifically should we look for > different tokens that would account for the differing test behavior? > Threading is indeed supported on OS X and ./configure reports (with no > thread-related flags): > > Enabling multithreaded support > checking pthread.h usability... yes > checking pthread.h presence... yes > checking for pthread.h... yes > checking for pthread_join in -lpthread... yes
That looks just fine to me. If the last part exercizing threads and catalogs of runtest passes then it should basically be just fine. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
