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authorXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2013-02-26 00:43:01 +0000
committerXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2013-02-26 00:43:01 +0000
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Vendor import of expat 2.1.0 (trimmed).vendor/expat/2.1.0
Notes
Notes: svn path=/vendor/expat/dist/; revision=247293 svn path=/vendor/expat/2.1.0/; revision=247295; tag=vendor/expat/2.1.0
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- Expat, Release 2.0.1
+ Expat, Release 2.1.0
This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ intended to be production grade software.
If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have
-autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer (1.5 or newer preferred).
-Run the script like this:
+autoconf 2.58 or newer. Run the script like this:
./buildconf.sh
@@ -65,8 +64,8 @@ location. Have a look at the "Makefile" to learn about additional
the directories into which things will be installed.
If you are interested in building Expat to provide document
-information in UTF-16 rather than the default UTF-8, follow these
-instructions (after having run "make distclean"):
+information in UTF-16 encoding rather than the default UTF-8, follow
+these instructions (after having run "make distclean"):
1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error
strings as char), run:
@@ -106,7 +105,10 @@ use DESTDIR=$(INSTALL_ROOT), even if DESTDIR eventually is defined in the
environment, because variable-setting priority is
1) commandline
2) in-makefile
-3) environment
+3) environment
+
+Note: This only applies to the Expat library itself, building UTF-16 versions
+of xmlwf and the tests is currently not supported.
Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in
"/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to