There is a problem in the libxml2 build environment if you are building the library with support for threads. If you examine the makefile, the target which generates the library, i.e. the libxml2.la target, (through libtool) should have $(THREAD_CFLAGS) and $(THREAD_LIBS) added to it. I guess that they should be actually added to a subsidiary target, maybe libxml2_la_LDFLAGS or LIBS. I don't know... If you don't have these flags, then the library isn't properly linked with the required thread libraries and this can cause problems for applications which then aren't explicitly linked with libpthread themselves. (This is a particular problem for single threaded applications which are using a libxml2.so which was built with threading enabled. This class of application will cause libxml2.so to dump core.) So, although I can hack a makefile to make it right, I'm not at all familiar in the use of autoconf and friends, so I can't work out what actually needs to be done to get the build environment corrected. Is there anyone out there who can sort this out and submit a patch to the list to the appropriate file which implements the change I've described above? Gary
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