Re: [xml] built libxml and libxslt, possible bugs

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:32:06PM +0100, Tobias Reif wrote:
> Hi Daniel et al,
>
> I just finished compiling and installing (under my home dir, not
> system-wide) the latest libxml and libxslt on SuSE 9.0 [uname]. I
> don't know if I have a problem or not; if none of the below is an
> issue then everything should be OK.
>
> 1. Should I somehow have compiled in libiconv and zlib?

  On Linux libiconv comes from glibc, nothing special should be needed.
Zlib should be installed, and autodetected by libxml2 configure.

> 2.
> While configure and make ran (regression tests etc) I saw various
> error messages, I'm not sure if they are of interest for you. I can
> send you my installation log (commands issued plus some output) or any
> of the files generated by configure, make, make tests, and make
> install.
>
> tobi ~/del/compile_libxml/libxml2-2.6.2 $ ./configure \
>  --prefix=$HOME/bulk/run/libxml
> [...]
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> Found Python version 2.3
> could not find python2.3/Python.h
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?

  Well taht probably mean you need the development python package and
it is not installed.

> [...] libxslt-1.1.0 $ make
> [generated many warnings like this one:]
> pattern.c:1237: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of
> data type
> [... which probably is no problem.]

  Not a big deal, new gcc optimizer defeated some macro handling, I see
them too on Fedora Core 1.

> tobi ~/del/compile_libxml/libxml2-2.6.2 $ make tests
> [...]
> ## Schemas regression tests
> deter0_0_0 result
> group0_0_0 result
> po1_0_0 result

  those failures are "normal"

> ## Relax-NG regression tests
> docbook_0 result
> 0a1,6 > ./test/relaxng/docbook_0.xml:16: I/O warning : failed to load
> external entity "test/dtd/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" > ]> > ^ >

  Well you don't have the DocBook DTDs in the catalogs.

> ## Threaded regression tests
> ## generating dba100000.xml
> /bin/sh: line 1: dbgenattr.pl: command not found
> make: *** [dba100000.xml] Error 127

  Seems perl is not where the dbgenattr.pl expects 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

> tobi ~/del/compile_libxml/libxml2-2.6.2 $ make install
> [...]
> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or
> directory
> make[2]: [install-data-local] Error 1 (ignored)
> [...]
> /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-fixxref: command not found
> make[2]: [install-data-local] Error 127 (ignored)

  Seems the GNOME documentation stuff is not installed on your machine.

> tobi ~/del/compile_libxml/libxslt-1.1.0 $ make tests
> [these seems to be intentional:]
> compilation error: file ./test-2.5-1.xsl line 6 element
> exciting-new-1.8-feature
> xsltStylePreCompute: unknown xsl:exciting-new-1.8-feature
> compilation error: file ./test-2.5-1.xsl line 2 element stylesheet
> xsl:version: only 1.0 features are supported
> [...]
> compilation error: file ./bug-60.xsl line 6 element foo-of
> xsltStylePreCompute: unknown xsl:foo-of

  Normal.

> Should all tests pass? The end of libxml2-2.6.2/result/regexp/xpath
> reads:
>
> 1: Fail
> 1ab: Fail
> a:1: Fail
> @a: Fail
> ancestor::a: Fail

  That's normal. To test the regexp support I need to test both
positive and negative regexp tests.

Daniel

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