Changeset ca25773

Timestamp:

07/19/2017 01:27:02 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f5c5306

Parents:

765c2a7

Message:

Fix libxml2 instructions for Python 3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@18949 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/genlib/libxml2.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "17">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "19">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "07">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 17th &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 19th &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

general/genlib/libxml2.xml

@@ -94 +94 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
     <para role="recommended">
-      <xref linkend="python2"/> and <xref linkend="python3"/> (to build and install a
-      <application>Python</application> library module, additionally it is
-      required to run the full suite of tests)
+      <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="python3"/> (to build and
+      install a <application>Python</application> library module, additionally
+      it is required to run the full suite of tests)
       <!-- As discovered by Bruce, itstool needs this module. -->
     </para>
@@ -125 +125 @@
 
     <para>
+      If you want to build the <application>Python</application> module for
+      <xref linkend="python3"/>, run:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/_PyVerify_fd/,+1d' python/types.c</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
       Install <application>libxml2</application> by running the following
       commands:
@@ -166 +173 @@
       <option>--with-python=/usr/bin/python3</option>: Add this switch if you
       want libxml2 to use Python3 instead of Python2.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>--with-icu</option>: Add this switch if you have built
+      <xref linkend="icu"/>, for better unicode support.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>--with-threads</option>: Add this switch to enable multithread
+      support.
     </para>
 

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>July 19th, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Fix instructions for building libxml2 with
+          Python3, and add some command explanations. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9467">#9467</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>July 17th, 2017</para>