This chapter describes the various parts of the build-system.
The sources are hosted on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-xpt/).
make use of configure to make the software more portable. currently the Makefile needs gmake.
document dependencies: libxml2-2.7.7 (xml2-config, perl-libxml-mm.c) + sources, perl-5.8. python26-2.6.5_1 perl-libxml-mm.c) + sources, perl-5.8. python-config: python-dev
Xpt is developed under Ubuntu. Binary packages are automatically build via https://launchpad.net/xml-xpt and currently made avaiable through a personal packaging archive (PPA).
Part of the documentation, especially the manpages, are extracted from the source code. The tools for extraction and converting it to DocBook 5 refentry elements, are part of the standard library that comes along with the xtp tool itself. See also xpt.embedded_manpage.embed_manpage.