Apache compilation warning

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Thu Jun 26 13:21:19 UTC 2008


"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

>>> Are the schemas required at build-time?
>> 
>> Surprisingly, yes.  The configure script checks for them.  They
>> probably aren't strictly needed, but why fiddle with that monstrous
>> script.  No obvious option jumped at me at first glance.
>
> The locations of the schemas (really the catalog files) are needed at build
> time because there are paths to them hardcoded into the binaries to avoid
> having to set ugly environment variables or provide location-dependent
> commands for 99% of the installations out there.
>
> The paths can be deduced from the location of the xmltooling and opensaml
> packages, but it doesn't know the actual locations. A configure only
> determines if it can find the headers and libraries, and that could be
> satisfied with CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. If I made the schemas optional, I'd
> have to come up with some other mechanism, or just require --with-xmltooling
> and --with-saml for any build where the schemas weren't installed.

I see.  Don't worry about this, it's not a problem at all.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.



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