[CentOS] expat packages

Fri Dec 16 09:55:34 UTC 2005
Jean Lee <jean.lee at free.fr>

Will McDonald a écrit :

>On 15/12/05, Jean Lee <jean.lee at free.fr> wrote:
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>>Will McDonald a écrit :
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>>>On 15/12/05, Jean Lee <jean.lee at free.fr> wrote:
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>>>>I am trying to compile an application which needs expat.
>>>>I have installed the "expat" and "expat-devel" packages with yum but
>>>>when I try to compile my application, I have the following problem :
>>>>expat_external.h is not found.
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>>>Which application? Might help us either resolve the problem or suggest
>>>a workaround, e.g. $app is available in Extras or from Dag, use that
>>>instead.
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>>This application is rfdump.
>>available at www.rfdump.org
>>This is for radio frequency identification (RFID) tag reading and is not
>>available with CentOS.
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>>There is a precompiled binary which is given but I would like to compile
>>it by myself.....
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>Personally, I'd stick with pre-compiled binaries for reasons exactly
>like this. :)
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>There's a considerably modified expat.h included with rfdump in ./src/
>which appears to override the default OS /usr/include/expat.h header
>file.
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>There's an #include "expat_external.h" in the ./src/ header file. I
>don't know if expat_external is deprecated or what. You could try
>grabbing the CentOS expat SRPM and see if it's in there then copy it
>out to /usr/include though I don't know what the knock-on effects of
>that could be. IANADeveloper. :)
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>http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=expat_external.h&btnG=Search&meta=
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>http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=expat_external.h+redhat&meta=
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>Will.
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Thank you for your support,

I downloaded the SRPMS but didn't find any expat_external.h in the sources.
I think that I will try with the precompiled binary...

Bye,

Jean