Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

Just a brief update on this after a little work. Xerces is horked badly on
OS X, it looks borderline hopeless to decouple 2.8.0 from the CoreFoundation
calls because nobody tests it against any of the non-CF code paths.

So far I've had to patch it in 3 different places to get it to build with
the IconvGNU transcoder and it proceeds to error out during library
initialization when it does build.

OS X comes with another supported transcoder (ICU) but without headers or
support for building against it, which means yet another dependency, even if
it works, which I have serious doubts about after this experience.

In short, I don't see this working soon.

I'm assuming BTW that a non-Apple Apache would also fail like this? Because
otherwise that is *definitely* a simpler fix than trying to fix Xerces.

-- Scott