Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Even if using ICU for transcoding, there's still some stuff in Xerces
> (MacOSPlatformUtils.cpp) which in the end pulls in things from CF - e.g.
> file related calls.

I would imagine that it won't work then, I assume the parser uses those
calls when it processes configuration files inside Apache. I'm a little
surprised it started up.

> Attached is a hackish patch for Xerces 2.8.0 which makes it use the
> FreeBSDPlatformUtils.cpp stuff when compiling for OS X. It should be
> considered a proof of concept, but at least it allows to compile a
> version of libxerces-c.28.0.dylib without any dependency on
> CoreServices/CoreFoundation. Of course, the usual "use at your own risk"
> disclaimer applies to anybody compiling Xerces with this patch
> (runConfigure needs to be called with "-p macosx -n socket -t icu").

I'm not sure what I can do with it. Did you want me to apply the patch as
part of the port definition?

-- Scott