Hi William, thanks. Installing "libexpat-devel-2.0.1-88.26.1" on this SLES11 system made httpd build again. Just that I do not like to rely on that kind of stuff. The old behavior of apr-util-1.5.4 was just more convenient :-( Actually never made me realize that "libexpat" is needed.
Cheers Martin On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:16 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Martin Knoblauch <kn...@knobisoft.de> > wrote: > >> Apparently apr-util no longer bundles "expat". So my question: what is > the > >> correct/intended way to work around this? > > > > > > apr-util accepts a --with-expat. If you build apr-util under httpd's > > srclib/ --with-expat can be specified at the top and it will be passed > > down. > > Note this shouldn't be necessary once you've installed libexpat > (-dev / -devel depending on your OS conventions.) > > Expat 2 is finally quite stable and with some luck you can rely > on your OS vendor to patch security defects. Once you've installed > the dev[el] package, apr should detect expat without hints. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
