Re: [PATCH] rewrite expat detection

["Dr. Peter Poeml" <po...@suse.de>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:12:28 +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> This is a rewrite of the expat detection in apr-util to fix lingering 
> problems like PR 28205 caused by attempting to detect presence of 
> libraries/headers using "test -f":
[...]
> - aiming for trunk not the 1.2.x branch!

Meanwhile, is there a point in the applying the attached patch, to help
the 1.2.8 branch work in one more case (missing .la file)?

Regards,
Peter
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Re: [PATCH] rewrite expat detection

[Henry Jen <sl...@gmail.com>]

Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:12:28 +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
>> This is a rewrite of the expat detection in apr-util to fix lingering 
>> problems like PR 28205 caused by attempting to detect presence of 
>> libraries/headers using "test -f":
> [...]
>> - aiming for trunk not the 1.2.x branch!
> 
> Meanwhile, is there a point in the applying the attached patch, to help
> the 1.2.8 branch work in one more case (missing .la file)?
> 

I can see there are several patch floating around, bug 40892[1] was 
filed with this one[2] use AC_CHECK_LIB instead of shaky test on reading 
a file.

[1] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40892
[2] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=19086

Cheers,
Henry