Re: Bug: --with-libxml does not take a location

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-11-07T03:40:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 +0900, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> ./configure --with-libxml does not accept a location argument.  This 
>>> makes it impossible to configure 8.3 with LibXML on the Mac, because 
>>> I can't upgrade the main libxml without breaking something, and 
>>> ./configure doesn't let me specify an alternate location.
>>
>> --with-libraries, --with-includes should work.
>
> Apparently not.
>
> Here's what I'm trying:
>
> ./configure --with-libxml 
> --with-libraries=/Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/ --with-perl 
> --prefix=/Users/josh/pg83b2
>
> The libxml in that directory is 2.6.30, but .configure always seems to 
> find the default one first.
>
> What I get for demoing on an OS which uses libxml in the OS ... darn 
> Apple, anyway.  But we'd better get ready for a lot of bug reports 
> from mac users.
>
>

I don't see you using --with-includes here

None of our --with-featurefoo options takes an argument, BTW. That at 
least isn't a bug, it's by design.

cheers

andrew