[xsd-users] how to compile utilizing a non-standard location of xerces

[vinai]

--- On Fri, 1/18/13, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:

> vinai <for_usenet at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> We built and installed xerces-c 3.1.1 in this non-system locale,
>> but have gotten stuck on trying to compile xsd to see and use
>> this location. We've downloaded xsd-3.3.0-2+dep.tar.bz2, which
>> did not have xerces-c. So we've tweaked various makefiles in the
>> different locations to try to get things to build, but we are
>> stuck where xsd cannot build because the compiler cannot resolve
>> references to components of xerces-c.
> 
> You don't need to modify any makefiles in order to specify the
> alternative Xerces-C++ location. As described in the README file
> in xsd+dep package, the build system recognizes a number of make
> variables, including CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Those should be used
> to specify the Xerces-C++ header (CPPFLAGS) and library location.
> 
> For example, if you installed Xerces-C++ into /opt/xerces (so
> that headers are in /opt/xerces/include and libraries are in
> /opt/xerces/lib), then the command line would look like this:
> 
> make  CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/xerces/include  LDFLAGS=-L/opt/xerces/lib
> 
> Boris

Thank you Boris.  That worked perfectly.

My apologies for being so thick-headed.  It was definitely a case
of missing something obvious after staring at this and related
things for too long.

Vinai