Keith Packard wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 14:42 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > >>Am Samstag, den 24.09.2005, 07:48 -0400 schrieb Patrick Lam: >> >>>I don't have a lot of configure-fu, but it would be at least good if >>>configure could deal with the possibility of only one of expat and >>>libxml2 being installed and do the right thing. Is that possible? >> >>Could do that quite quickly. Only question to resolve: Which one to >>choose, if both exist and no option was specified? Based on Keith's >>statements I guess, expat should stay as default? > > I think for now we should leave expat as the default, and allow the > configure script to override this option. At some point, it might make > sense to switch the default. Ok. Mathias, if you create a patch that uses expat as the default and uses libxml2 if configure says so or if expat is not present, I'll commit it to the 2_4 branch and make a dev release. pat
