expat & Xfree

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander,

Okay.

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?

That is something I would like to understand a little more clearly 
before I flip the flag.

Thanks,

Harold

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>Do you think it is wise to use Cygwin's expat over the XFree86 expat?
> 
> 
> yes. It is the same as with freetype and fontconfig. No one ever noticed/
> took care of these duplicated libraries. Most linux distributions use the
> most recent libraries instead of the (maybe rather old) sources in the xfree
> cvs.
> 
> bye
>     ago
> 
> NP: grauzone.03-04-14