compiling libjingle, expat error

Question

while installing libjingle, the installation halts because of a missing xmlparse.c

this is the error part of the install... i do have xmlparse.c in the thirdparty/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.c, any idea what's wrong?

File "./../../swtoolkit/site_scons/site_init.py", line 203, in BuildEnvironmentSConscripts
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: *** [build/dbg/obj/third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.o] Source`third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.c' not found, needed by target `build/dbg/obj/third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.o'.
scons: building terminated because of errors.
root@den-pc:~/tejesh/libjingle-0.6.14/talk# 

Answer 1

I actually downloaded the libjingle once I realized it was dealing with p2p, since I work in a similar area and want to check it out.

I downloaded the expat lib and copied it to the third-party directory and compiled it without problems like this:

# ../../swtoolkit/hammer.sh expat

And here are the results:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: warning: The build_dir keyword has been deprecated; use the variant_dir keyword instead.
File "<myPath>/swtoolkit/site_scons/site_init.py", line 203, in BuildEnvironmentSConscripts
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
________Compiling build/dbg/obj/third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.o
________Compiling build/dbg/obj/third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlrole.o
________Compiling build/dbg/obj/third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmltok.o
________Creating library build/dbg/obj/libexpat.a
________Indexing build/dbg/obj/libexpat.a
Install file: "build/dbg/obj/libexpat.a" as "build/dbg/lib/libexpat.a"
scons: done building targets.

Could it be something as simple as the directory permissions?

Here's what I have:

# ls -al third_party/
...
drwxr-xr-x 12 notroot notroot   4096 2012-05-30 02:14 expat-2.0.1
...

# ls -al third_party/expat-2.0.1/
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 notroot notroot   4096 2012-05-30 02:09 lib
...

# ls -al third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib
...
-rwxr-xr-x 1 notroot notroot 193934 2012-05-30 02:09 xmlparse.c
...

Actually all of the files in the third_party/expat-2.0.1/lib dir have the same permissions, I just didnt want to list them all here.

Answer 2

The installation was searching for expat-2.0.1 when expat-2.1.0 was installed, guess the README is not fully updated.....The compilation continued on renaming the directory to expat-2.0.1.