Re: [Tclxml-users] Report of my attempt to install tcldom 2.2 (fwd)

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:
> Here are my experiences after having read the message below.
> 
> 1.	Got head of Tcl 8.3.4 branch
> 1.a		Compiled and installed in playground/sandbox
> 2.	Got head of tclxml/tcldom
> 2.a		Ran autoconf
> 2.b.		Configured with same prefix as tcl, did --enable-xml2
> 			configure did not find xml2
> 
> 	There is nothing in the docs telling us
> 	where we can get libxml2. Stop.

README now fixed.

> Nit: make distclean leaves two directories behind, library and src-libxml2
> (in the build directory). Can be explained because srcdir contains these
> two directories too, often builddir = srcdir.
> 
> I tried a second configure of tcldom, with --disable-xml2.
> No errors for that.
> 
> Compilation fails nevertheless because the makefile tried to compile the
> sources in src-libxml2 despite the fact that I just told it that libxml2
> is not available.
> 
> 	That is not acceptable. A configure option which does nothing at all.

The autoconf/configure scripts need some work.
I'm looking for a volunteer for that.

>>2. The sf.net tar file didn't include top level configure -
>>is configure supposed to be done elsewhere?  The README isn't clear.
> 
> IMHO the source distribution has to have a 'configure'. For a checkout from
> the CVS the situation is more fuzzy.

I'll make sure the distribution includes a configure in future.

>>3. After I ran autoconf to create the configure, configure
>>reports this error:
>>configure: error: cannot run /bin/ksh config/config.sub
> 
> Not here.

Thank heavens something worked!

> Speculation: It seems as if the script install still does rely on the
> information provided by the configure script.

Peter Farmer wrote that part of the install script;
he's probably the best one to answer that.

>>I'm still uncertain about the purpose of the src and src-xml2 directories;
>>the README doesn't mention either.
> 
> The src directory contains the generic tcldom sources. The framework where
> parsers etc can plug themselves into.

Not quite.  The src directory contains the sources for the
TclDOMPro implementation (not yet integrated into the package
build system - that's Joe English's code).  The generic layer
sources are tcldom.c and tcldom.h in the top directory.

> src-libxml2 contains the glue code wrapping around libxml2 and making it
> useable by the tcldom framework in src. Essentially a separate package.

Correct.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

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