Shibboleth Developers

[Alistair Young <>]

Hi Elliot,
FWIW, here's how I built Xerces-C on Linux:

export XERCESCROOT=/usr/local/src/shibboleth/xerces-c-src_2_5_0
cd $XERCESCROOT/src/xercesc
./autoconf
./runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread
gmake

cheers,
Alistair

On 29 Jun 2004, at 03:53, Elliot Metsger wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I found the problem.  In my installation,  
> <shibtarget-install>/include/xercesc/util/Platforms/Linux/ 
> LinuxDefs.hpp defines LINUX to be nothing on line 104:
> #define LINUX
>
> Since the preprocessor searches <shibtarget-install>/include first,  
> other expressions using LINUX fail, the first being the one in  
> ap_config.h.
>
> It doesn't seem to be a Shib or Apache thing.  I'll review the process  
> I used to build Xerces-C and see if I missed a step that led to the  
> malformed #define.
>
> Thanks,
> Elliot
>
>
> Jim Fox wrote:
> >
> > This looks like an apache build error.  Does the ap_config.h really
> > have a #if with no expression?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Elliot Metsger wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:28:31 -0400
> > > From: Elliot Metsger 
> > > <>
> > > To: 
> > >
> > > Subject: Shibboleth 1.2 target build error
> > >
> > > -MD -MP -MF .deps/mod_shib_13_la-mod_shib_13.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o  
> > > .libs/mod_shib_13_la-mod_shib_13.o
> > > In file included from /usr/local/apache/current/include/httpd.h:29,
> > >                 from mod_apache.cpp:23,
> > >                 from mod_shib_13.cpp:20:
> > > /usr/local/apache/current/include/ap_config.h:423:11: #if with no  
> > > expression
> > >
> > > To get around it, I set -DLINUX=26 in my CPPFLAGS environment  
> > > variable and the compile finished without error.  I'm not sure if  
> > > thats the correct, sustainable fix. Hopefully this info will help  
> > > someone out down the line.