Re: bundling libxml2

Remember the issues with --with-mysql and some third party library linking with external libs..? --Jani On 27 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: >Because, this will encourage people to do : > >--without-xml > >Instead of upgrading the system libxml2. > >-Sterling > >On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:04, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:25:39PM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: >> > >> > 2) Libxml2 may be installed everywhere, but the version we rely upon >> > isn't available everywhere. As witnessed by a message to the list by >> > michael, and a problem that someone else had over IRC. Its fine to >> > allow people to use external versions of libxml2, however, we need a >> > recent version to operate. For example, schema support is pretty >> > essential, as its becoming the new DTD format for XML (and is required >> > for proper SOAP support). >> >> If you need a recent version, why not just require it as part of >> the configure tests as usual?