Update the comments on building the pyexpat extension.

Closes SF bug #577774.

diff --git a/Modules/Setup.dist b/Modules/Setup.dist
index f54b13b7fb4ae97671169f84469791afc8221ba4..1071a8e1ac5075ef2144b2a9bac9fc0361e90a7c 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/Setup.dist
+++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
@@ -439,25 +439,20 @@ GLHACK=-Dclear=__GLclear
 
 # Interface to the Expat XML parser
 #
-# Expat is written by James Clark and must be downloaded separately
-# (see below).  The pyexpat module was written by Paul Prescod after a
-# prototype by Jack Jansen.
+# Expat was written by James Clark and is now maintained by a group of
+# developers on SourceForge; see www.libexpat.org for more
+# information.  The pyexpat module was written by Paul Prescod after a
+# prototype by Jack Jansen.  Expat 1.95.2 is the recommended version
+# of Expat for use with Python.  Usage of a system shared
+# libexpat.so/expat.dll is not advised; a static version of the
+# library is sufficient.
 #
-# The Expat dist includes Windows .lib and .dll files.  Home page is at
-# http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html, the current production release is
-# always ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip.
+# The Expat library should be installed so that the linker will find
+# it properly.
 #
-# EXPAT_DIR, below, should point to the expat/ directory created by
-# unpacking the Expat source distribution.
+# More information on Expat can be found at www.libexpat.org.
 #
-# Note: the expat build process doesn't yet build a libexpat.a; you can
-# do this manually while we try convince the author to add it.  To do so,
-# cd to EXPAT_DIR, run "make" if you have not done so, then run:
-#
-#    ar cr libexpat.a xmltok/*.o xmlparse/*.o
-#
-#EXPAT_DIR=/usr/local/src/expat
-#pyexpat pyexpat.c -I$(EXPAT_DIR)/xmlparse -L$(EXPAT_DIR) -lexpat
+#pyexpat pyexpat.c -DHAVE_EXPAT_H -lexpat
 
 
 # Example -- included for reference only: