Mailing List Archive: how do I build pyexpat?

how do I build pyexpat?

jeremy at beopen

Jun 28, 2000, 7:08 PM

Post #1 of 6 (437 views)

Setup.in contains the following comment:

# (Note: the expat build process doesn't yet build a libexpat.a; you can
# do this manually while we try convince the author to add it.)

I've got expat, and I've built it, but I don't have any idea how to
build libexpat.a. It may be possible to do it manually, but it would
help a lot if the comments could say how to build it or contain a link
to instructions on how to build it.

Jeremy

Re: how do I build pyexpat? [ In reply to ]

paul at prescod

Jun 28, 2000, 9:21 PM

Post #2 of 6 (424 views)

I don't know where you got your expat or how new it is, but with the one
I got from the xml-sig, I can type

"make libexpat.a"

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Re: how do I build pyexpat? [ In reply to ]

akuchlin at cnri

Jun 29, 2000, 5:25 AM

Post #3 of 6 (427 views)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:21:41PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
>I don't know where you got your expat or how new it is, but with the one
>I got from the xml-sig, I can type
>"make libexpat.a"

That's a patch I made to the Makefile and submitted to James Clark.
For Modules/Setup.in, I can change it to explicitly list the 8 files
from Expat that need to be linked to. The problem is that one of the
files will vary:

# Use one of the next two lines; unixfilemap is better if it works.
FILEMAP_OBJ=xmlwf/unixfilemap.o
#FILEMAP_OBJ=xmlwf/readfilemap.o

--amk

Re: how do I build pyexpat? [ In reply to ]

fdrake at beopen

Jun 29, 2000, 6:52 AM

Post #4 of 6 (426 views)

Andrew Kuchling writes:
> That's a patch I made to the Makefile and submitted to James Clark.
> For Modules/Setup.in, I can change it to explicitly list the 8 files
> from Expat that need to be linked to. The problem is that one of the

It's not in the stable version I picked up last night; I'll dig up
the experimental version today.

-Fred

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Re: how do I build pyexpat? [ In reply to ]

jeremy at beopen

Jun 29, 2000, 7:45 AM

Post #5 of 6 (429 views)

>>>>> "FLD" == Fred L Drake, <fdrake@beopen.com> writes:

FLD> Andrew Kuchling writes:
>> That's a patch I made to the Makefile and submitted to James
>> Clark. For Modules/Setup.in, I can change it to explicitly list
>> the 8 files from Expat that need to be linked to. The problem is
>> that one of the

FLD> It's not in the stable version I picked up last night; I'll
FLD> dig up the experimental version today.

I downloaded version 1.1 from the expat home page. The URL for the
download is ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip. This version
hasn't changed in the last two weeks.

The instructions Fred include worked almost just right. I checked in
the corrected ar command and it looks good.

Jeremy

Re: how do I build pyexpat? [ In reply to ]

fdrake at beopen

Jun 29, 2000, 7:52 AM

Post #6 of 6 (427 views)

Jeremy Hylton writes:
> The instructions Fred include worked almost just right. I checked in
> the corrected ar command and it looks good.

That's what I get for typing in the dark on a dark keyboard. ;)

-Fred

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