8.38. Expat-2.4.6

The Expat package contains a stream oriented C library for parsing XML.

Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU

Required disk space: 12 MB

8.38.1. Installation of Expat

Prepare Expat for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/expat-2.4.6

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue:

make check

Install the package:

make install

If desired, install the documentation:

install -v -m644 doc/*.{html,css} /usr/share/doc/expat-2.4.6

Installed program: xmlwf

Installed libraries: libexpat.so

Installed directory: /usr/share/doc/expat-2.4.6

xmlwf	Is a non-validating utility to check whether or not XML documents are well formed
`libexpat`	Contains API functions for parsing XML