Re: Changes to ext/xml config.m4

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rui Hirokawa wrote: > > >> don't think those belong in there. Specifically, you changed it to look > >> for Expat installed in /usr/local and /usr - this goes contrary to > >> meaning of the bundled Expat library. What I mean is that the > >> --enable-xml switch (on by default) means that the bundled library > >> should be used, not that Expat should be searched for wherever possible. > >> If people don't want to use bundled Expat, they should do --disable-xml. > > > >I understand what you said. > > > >How about this ? > >--enable-xml (on by default): use bundled expat lib. > >--enable-xml2 (off by default): search libexpat>1.95 and use it. > >--disable-xml : disable both options. > > Why not doing it like Mysql is done? ie. change it to --with-xml > and if no path is issued, use bundled library. And maybe issue a warning > about it..? > > Or have both --with-xml and --enable-xml (on by default). > > Another thing I run into today is Sablotron 0.50: > > ----8<---------------- > There is a significant change of how the expat is used since version > 0.50. Sablotron _never_ builds the expat under source tree, but > supposes, that you have installed Expat library in your system. > -------8<------------- > Right that's why PHP has changed its build process to include the xmltok and xmlparse libraries when building sablotron. ;-) -sterling