RE: [Tclxml-users] ideas sought regarding tcldom's xml2 configuration

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry W. Virden [mailto:lv...@ca...]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: Andreas Kupries
> Cc: tcl...@li...; Jeff Hobbs
> Subject: Re: [Tclxml-users] ideas sought regarding tcldom's xml2
> configuration
>
>
>
> Hopefully I haven't trimmed too much off
>
> From: "Andreas Kupries" <and...@ac...>
>
> > > > It looks with the --with-Tcldom=/usr/tcl84/lib is not working in the
> > > > src-xml2 directory.
> > > >
> > > > I'm still trying to figure out the problem here - there
> doesn't _appear_
> > > > to be much use of the relevant variables in configure:
> >
> > Note:
> > 	Of the three spellings in my answer (Tcldom, TclDom, tcldom)
> > 	only the first is correct, and the others should have been like
> > 	the first.
> >
> > I note:
> > 	--with-Tcldom=/usr/tcl84/lib
> >
> > Is that the same directory we would get through --prefix/lib
> > and/or --exec-prefix/lib ?
> > Also, was the Tcldom base package installed before configuring the sub
> > package in src-libxml2 ?
> >
> >
>
> All the Tcl 8.4 related extensions, etc. that I install go into
> /usr/tcl84.
> All my extensions are configured with a --prefix=/usr/tcl84 .
> I built tcldom with that, did a make and then a make install.  Then I
> went to the src-xml2 directory attempted a configure, and found that
> it generated a series of error msgs because I had not supplied various
> --with flags,

--with-xml2-* I believe ?

> etc.  It seems to me that the configures should look
> first in the $exec_prefix, and then, if $prefix is different, in that
> directory, for the things it is seeking before erroring.

The --with-xml2-* code looks in

	Headers			Shared libs
	-------------------------------------------
	--with-xml2-include	--with-xml2-lib
	prefix/include		exec_prefix/lib
	/usr/include		/usr/lib
	/usr/local/include	/usr/local/lib
	-------------------------------------------

I do not believe that the system should search shared libs in prefix/lib.
We are talking about platform dependent files here, and prefix is platform
independent.

Doesn't standard code in configure set exec_prefix to prefix if only prefix
is specified ?

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	Andreas Kupries <and...@Ac...>
	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com