From 584cd5cbd7be997400ccb8db24ae5410b0b88117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "initial.commit" Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:38:33 +0000 Subject: Add third_party to the repository. git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@19 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98 --- third_party/libxml/INSTALL | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 third_party/libxml/INSTALL (limited to 'third_party/libxml/INSTALL') diff --git a/third_party/libxml/INSTALL b/third_party/libxml/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92f92dd --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/libxml/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Extracted from the documentation: + http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio + +Compilation + + 1.What is the process to compile libxml ? + + As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard": + + gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - + + cd libxml-xxxx + + ./configure --help + + to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper + + ./configure [possible options] + + make + + make install + + At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to + update your list of installed shared libs. + + At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning + by running + + make tests + + 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ? + + Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API + should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you + may find). + + However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use + the following libs: + + libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library + http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ + iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's + included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't + need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's + now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one + implementation of the library which source can be found here. + http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html + ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ + + 3.make tests may fail on some platforms + + Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the + value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print + the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation + process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem + +Daniel +veillard@redhat.com + +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.4 2006/03/24 14:02:54 veillard Exp $ -- cgit v1.1