expat & Xfree

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander,

Okay, that makes me certain that we can turn this flag on.  I will add 
the flag soon.  I am not sure how quickly I will release new packages 
for this... it doesn't seem crucially important.

Harold

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> from SuSE XFree86 RPM Specfile:
> 
> cat << EOF > config/cf/host.def
> #define LinuxDistribution       LinuxSuSE
> #undef  OSVendor
> #define OSVendor                SuSE
> #undef  DefaultOSName
> #define DefaultOSName           SuSE Linux
> [...]
> /* Freetype2 Support */
> #define HasFreetype2            YES
> /* fontconfig support */
> #define HasExpat                YES
> 
> for Red Hat i've not found this define, but they do not provide libexpat
> in their packages.
> 
> bye
>     ago
> NP: grauzone.03-04-14