RE: [xml] compiling libxml2-devel on solaris

["Igor Zlatkovic" <izlatkovic daenet de>]

Hello Jakob, all.

libxml2 and libxml2-devel are RPM packages and RPM has no home on
Solaris. Perhaps the one freak or another has installed it in such
environment (hello Cristian :-)), but RPM is nothing you find on every
Solaris box.

Had you been running Solaris on an IA32 machine, I could give you
binaries you would only need to copy at the apropriate location.
Unfortunately, SPARC workstations break my private budget and you must
either buy me a SPARC machine or build the software yourself. I would
prefer you take the first option, but since that is very unlikely to
happen... 

...tell your admin that he must download the source code,
libxml2-x.x.x.tar.gz, compile it and install it. It is a matter of
typing ./configure; make; make install; and it brings everything needed
for utilitisation of libxml2, including development, onto your machine.

Oh, should the lack of GNU C compiler and GNU make lead your admin into
problems, perhaps he would consider the first option...?

Ciao
Igor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakob [mailto:jakob free fr]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:13 PM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: [xml] compiling libxml2-devel on solaris
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this list.
>
> I have developped an application using libxml2 (from inside 
> php) on Linux.  
> Now, the application needs to be ported to the production 
> machine which is a 
> Sparc running Solaris.  The sysadmin asked me how to install 
> libxml2 on this 
> machine.
>
> Apparently, there are two packages, libxml2 and 
> libxml2-devel, which must both 
> be installed.  While we could find the source code for 
> libxml2, there doesn't 
> seem to be one for the -devel package.
>
> Note, I found a similar problem in the archive, but the 
> response was less than 
> helpful to me (of the kind: "if you are on such a platform, 
> you should know 
> anyway").  
>
> So here's my kind request for an instructive answer on how to 
> get libxml run on 
> Solaris.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jakob.
>
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