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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:41:28 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: XSL Processor for DJGPP??
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:
> [snip]
> > libxml2-2.4.15 can be built with DJGPP (some hints are needed for configure
> > and one needs to install ls080b.zip to suceed). Tests mostly passes after
> > that.
> [snip]
> 
> Why does libxml require libsocket? (I assume ls080b.zip is libsocket.) That
> seems a bit weird. I thought libxml would just an XML parser, not some
> network-enabled thingy.
> 
> libsocket is not supported anymore, so it would be good if libxml did not
> require libsocket, to build with DJGPP.
> 

It would not require if one could fix the problems to build it without
socket support. libxml2 has some network related stuff inside and is
perhaps not enough tested for such systems as DJGPP. I tried at first to
build libxml2 without ls080b.zip installed but did not succeed easy
enough.

Andris