[htdig] Cross-platform issues: compile, special characters

[Thilo B. <Thi...@de...>]

Posted to general, cause manual patches and
misbehaviour of current beta could be of general
interest:

Beeing aware of the fact, that htdig 3.2.0b3 is
still beta and while trying to evaluate the general
problem with special characters and HTML character
entities I got it compile and run on at least two
different platforms:

- Mac OS X Server (1.2r3)
- Cygwin (Win NT, latest release)

Finally, there still remains one common problem
on those environments:

   htdig doesn't index words containing
   special characters (umlaut: ä =E4, etc.).

Wouldn't it be possible to create a more portable
solution which does not make assumptions on locales
or something other operating system and installation
dependent stuff?

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As a hint for others, evaluating this beta release
I'll provide bugfixes to be corrected manually to
successfully build the binaries:

1. Mac OS X Server 1.2r3:

"mktime" resides in libc.a, which doesn't
seem to be detected automatically (configure).

In file "htlib/mktime.c" (48-55):
move "#define my_mktime..." out of the "#ifdef DEBUG"
block section. It now should compile (I've tuned
the standard version including OpenSSL, libz.a, etc.).

2. Cygwin:

... has problems with some "#ifdef" sections.
Neither "DBL_MAX" nor "FLOAT_MAX" is defined here
(file: htsearch/Display.cc). Another problem was
related to an "#ifdef" section in file "htlib/HtRegex.h":
"regex.h" and <regex.h> includes have to be exchanged
(inverse logic).