[SOSlib-discuss] libSBML xml library

[Rainer M. <ra...@tb...>]

Hi,

libSBML has changed its default xml library on linux to libxml2 which is 
not accounted for in our current configure routine. SOSlib configure fails 
because the test program for libSBML uses either -lxerces-c or -lexpat 
linking flags.

question: is there any need at all for these flags? we don't use any 
functions from the xml library, and for me configure and compilation with 
libxml2 works without any flag (remove all -lxerces-c from config/sbml.m4 
or from configure). Can we completely leave out this flag or is it 
required for some architectures, or e.g. if the xml library is installed 
at a location different from one of the other libs and is thus not part 
of the -I  and -L path values? For the latter case, we could have no flag 
as default, but xml library flags could be added optionally.

Rainer