Error while installing X11R6.8.2

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Tue Oct 4 00:49:49 PDT 2005


Nupur wrote:
> Thank you for your replies.
> I have one more query, if you can help.
> What does expat do?
> and on what basis should i decide whether to install expat or disable
> it in hosts.def?
> 
It's an XML parser needed by fontconfig to parse its configuration 
files. If you set it to NO in host.def, it won't be disabled. X will 
build its own local copy and install it.
-- 
					Matthieu



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