Hi,

I needed to disable compiling with the expat library even if present in
the build system, so I created a --with-expat configure option to
control that. Configuring with --with-expat=no or --without-expat will
disable the expat test. The default is to use the library if available.

I'm posting here in case you are interested in incorporating the
change...
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center