Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.5.3

[Morus Walter <morus walter tanto-xipolis de>]

Matt Sergeant writes:
> >   Hum, you seem to have a libc header/sharedlib mismatch. I don't
> > see any recent change in libxml2 which could lead to this,
>
> I'll try an earlier libxml2 and see what happens.
a simple 
./configure ; make
works for me (Linux, SuSE 7.3) except that the make
tries to build the python module:
...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3/example'
Making all in python
make[2]: Entering directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3/python'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3/python'
cd . && /usr/bin/python generator.py
Found 1132 functions in libxml2-api.xml
Found 45 functions in libxml2-python-api.xml
Generated 700 wrapper functions, 293 failed, 184 skipped

Missing type converters: 
xmlGenericErrorFunc *:1  xlinkType:1
....
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "generator.py", line 1134, in ?
    buildWrappers()
  File "generator.py", line 1092, in buildWrappers
    if pref[0] == ref[0]:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ref' referenced before assignment
make[3]: *** [gen_prog] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3/python'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3/python'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/xml/libxml2-2.5.3'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

But xmllint is built successfully and it's no problem to do a 
make install afterwards (except that it tries to do the python module
build again.

I'm pretty sure, there was no attempt to build the python module when
compiling 2.5.2.
And I don't remember any changes on my system related to python since
then.

greetings
        Morus