On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > Hello fellow developers, I have a problem on which I need advice. > > Pathan is a library that implements XPath functionality in c++. It > is available both as a separate tarball as well as bundled with the > Berkeley DB XML sources provided by Sleepycat Software. The pathan > build script require a path to the xerces source code tree. I have > tried to find a way to build the pathan library without providing > the xerces source but failed. > > Is there anything I can do to work around this source dependency? > > I can always give up the idea of an independent build of the pathan > library and ship it as part of dbxml where the source include both > pathan and xerces (and berkeley db, and xquery; in the same source, > sic; talk about bloat).
find out exactly the files in the xerces sources that are needed to build Pathan (using strace, etc.). Change xerces26-dev to include these files so that you can just build-dep on xerces26-dev. Then try to help upstream to reduce the source dependency. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
