Issue 7609: Add --with-system-expat option (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-12-31 02:05 by Arfrever, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg97074 - (view)	Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) *	Date: 2009-12-31 02:05
`configure` should support --with-system-expat option (similarly to -- internal copy of expat. It will be useful for some distributions (e.g. Gentoo), which prefer to use system libraries instead internal copies.
msg97075 - (view)	Author: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) *	Date: 2009-12-31 02:09
Some fragment of my initial comment disappeared :( . This option will be similar to '--with-system-ffi' option. It will cause using system expat instead of internal copy of expat.
msg97076 - (view)	Author: Benjamin Peterson (benjamin.peterson) *	Date: 2009-12-31 03:17
Applied in r77169.
msg97096 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2009-12-31 14:51
The comment "Usage of a system shared libexpat.so/expat.dll is not advised." just above the change should probably be revised.
msg97100 - (view)	Author: Benjamin Peterson (benjamin.peterson) *	Date: 2009-12-31 16:28
2009/12/31 Georg Brandl <report@bugs.python.org>: > > Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment: > > The comment "Usage of a system shared libexpat.so/expat.dll is not > advised." just above the change should probably be revised. Good point. Done in r77186.