Re: gnumeric 1.0.5 xml linking error

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:01:57PM -0800, Taura Milana wrote:
> Hi, while attempting the compile gnumeric 1.0.5, the linking
> stage fails with unresolved symbols that are appearently
> in libxml.  I verified that libxml is installed properly
> and it should be able to find it, however it is not. Below
> is the error:

> /home/learfox/projects/pubsrc/gnumeric-1.0.5/src/gui-clipboard.c:292:
> undefined reference to `xmlFree'

This has come up before.  You have multiple conflicting versions of
libxml installed.

    libxml1 and
    libxml2

have similar header file names but are _supposed_ to have a distinct
prefix.  gnumeric 1.0.x requires libxml1.  If you have old libxml2
header files installed somewhere, before things were fixed,
Gnumeric ends up reading libxml2 headers and linking against
libxml1.  The result is the mess you see.

Please search your system to ensure that libxml2 headers are either
not installed, or are a recent version.

Hope that helps,
    Jody