Re: expat: make check fails

Greg Stein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.expat.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:24:32AM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Sven Utcke writes:
>...
>  > note that I do not mean to slight anybody --- I'm sure there was some
>  > reason to do things the way they were done; all I'm trying to do is to
>  > point out that in my opinion this is not the behaviour the majority of
>  > people would expect --- and I consider such startling behaviour a bug]

Yup, it is definitely a bug and has been logged at SourceForge. It is on my
plate to fix it in the configuration process. My intent is to have configure
note the absence of "check" and tweak "make check" to issue a warning when
the library is missing.

> Understood.  It's not unreasonable to expect a bit more from
> configure, but I'm afraid our autoconf expert has been more than a
> little busy lately.

Oof... you can say that again. :-(

Cheers,
-g

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