[sldev] xmlrpc-epi and expat crash

[Phoenix]

I have added notes on patching to source to the linux build  
instructions.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_%28Linux% 
29#Prerequisites


On 2007 Feb 2, at 16:29, David Fries wrote:
> What instructions?
>
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux)
>
> Anything else I should know about?
>
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:00:40AM -0800, Phoenix wrote:
>> Our instructions on the wiki include steps to remove xmlrpc-epi's
>> copy of expat. Are these insufficient or unclear?
>>
>> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_%28MS_Windows%
>> 29#XMLRPC-epi
>>
>>
>> On 2007 Feb 1, at 23:27, David Fries wrote:
>>> What do you get when some code is compiled against one set of  
>>> headers
>>> and other code (in the same program) is compiled against a different
>>> set?  Problems, just see my earlier post on 'OpenJPEG MAX_PATH  
>>> issue'
>>> don't look for a thread, there were no replies on the list.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that second life just started using some XML that it
>>> wasn't using earlier.  Maybe something to do with capabilities and
>>> xmlrpc that wasn't used earlier?  Here's the problem.
>>>
>>> xmlrpc-epi-0.51 includes expat, but it is an old version.  When I  
>>> say
>>> includes it, I mean there is a copy in the source directory, and  
>>> that
>>> verson is compiled into the xmlrpc-epi library.  Old enough that it
>>> doesn't even use expat.h which the current expat version does.   
>>> There
>>> are multipe references to expat.h in the second life source code
>>> indicating that second life is expected to compile against the new
>>> version of expat.
>>>
>>> My solution was to remove expat from xmlrpc-epi and fixup the source
>>> files to reference the new header file name for expat.  Another Unix
>>> developer I was talking to was having the same issue and doing  
>>> what I
>>> did worked for him as well.  I would expect other problem to have  
>>> this
>>> problem as well.
>>>
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>>> David Fries <david at fries.net>
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> David Fries <david at fries.net>
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