expat & Xfree

[Harold L Hunt II]

Gerrit,

I see HasExpat in X11.tmpl defined by default to No.  The only .cf file 
that I see with HasExpat YES is sco5.cf.  I am wondering if there are 
some good reasons why people are using the internal expat instead of the 
installed expat.  I am also wondering how much of the tree is affected 
by this; in other words, does it even matter?  Is expat even being used 
in the build process?  If it is being used and it might speed the build, 
then I am all for defining HasExpat as YES, but I want to know that it 
matters before we make such a change.

Harold

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I don't know.  Have you got a build flag in mind that specifies that the 
> external version should be used?
> 
> Harold
> 
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>> Hallo,
>>
>> The expat package is included in the (non xfree part of the)
>> netrelease. Wouldn't it make sense to use this expat instead
>> of provinding a XFree version, which is probably the same?
>>
>>
>> Gerrit
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