dbus-glib and expat

Havoc Pennington havoc.pennington at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 06:27:16 PST 2008


Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does building dbus-glib require expat?
>
> I'm working with an embedded linux distribution that only has libxml
> and it appears to me that the dbus-glib configure script is only
> looking for the expat library.  Is this correct?
>

There is an old file that supports libxml, but it's not maintained.
You could quickly get libxml working, but don't expect it to work out
of the box, you will need to patch dbus a little bit until 'make
check' passes with libxml.

Havoc


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