Re: [xml] prb building libxml

["Robert Collins" <robert collins itdomain com au>]

Sorry folks, this may be so much noise. I found an old link in the build
dir to libxml2-2.3.9, and removing that cured my ills.

OTOH, it may still be valid as I'd already removed the system headers
that I suspected at first.

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert collins itdomain com au>
To: <xml gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:00 AM
Subject: [xml] prb building libxml


> libxml has a chicken and egg #include problem - for me at least.
>
> The functions in encoding.h changed from 2.3.9 to 2.3.10 which is why
I
> caught it
>
> symptoms: gcc includes the system copy of libxml/headername rather
than
> the one from the source archive.
>
> Gcc is being called with:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../libxml2-2.3.10 -I. -I../libxml2-2.3.10/incl
> ude -I./include -g -O2 -Wall -c ../libxml2-2.3.10/xpath.c -o xpath.o
>
> I don't know if this is a problem with my configuration...
>
> Anyway, I'm about to remove the old installed headers as a workaround.
> IMO the source for libxml should include
> "libxml/foo.h" not <libxml/foo.h> as you are building a new library
that
> should not use the system headers if they exist.
>
> This is particularly likely to be an issue if macros change between
> versions.
>
> Rob
>
>
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