Re: [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options
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Msg-id 20071104101425.5179e738@scratch
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Unclarity of configure options
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:11:00 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> > The current (CVS version) configure script has the following options
> > (among many others):
> > 
> >   --enable-dtrace         build with DTrace support
> >   --with-ossp-uuid        build with OSSP UUID library for UUID
> > generation --with-libxml           build with XML support
> >   --with-libxslt          build with XSLT support
> > 
> > One could think that adding any of this option to ./configure before
> > building Postgres from sources, he will have corresponding support
> > after installation and initdb process. But what we have now is the
> > huge difference between "--with-libxml" and "--with-libxslt": while
> > the first one adds XML support to the core, the second one doesn't
> > provide anything automatically, it allows only using contirb/xml2
> > (what is unclear because the help message is the same as for
> > --with-libxml -- "build with ... support").
> 
> I have modified the configure message to be:
> 
>     --with-libxslt          build /contrib/xml2 with XSLT support
> 
> Patch attached.

Shouldn't --with-libxml be noted as deprecated?

Joshua D. Drake





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