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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:28:39PM +0100, Tobias Reif wrote:
> On Tue 2003-11-11 Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Zlib should be installed, and autodetected by libxml2 configure.
>
> I see. How can I find out if it was autodetected?
> (Another tool did not compile because there seem to be two versions on
> my machine, see [libz].) Is zlib == libz?

  yes

> libxml2-2.6.2/config.log:
> (again, I can send you any of the generated files if it helps)
>
> configure:8347: checking zlib.h usability
> configure:8360: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
> configure:8406:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
> configure:8363: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | #line 8349 "configure"
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> [...]
> | #include <zlib.h>
> configure:8379: result: no
> configure:8383: checking zlib.h presence
> configure:8394: gcc -E  conftest.c
> configure:8408:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
> configure:8400: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | #line 8385 "configure"
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> | 
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
> [...]
> | #include <zlib.h>
> configure:8419: result: no
> configure:8455: checking for zlib.h
> configure:8462: result: no
> [...]
> ac_cv_header_zlib_h=no
>
> Does this mean configure didn't find zlib?

  Yes, check with your SuSE support why this doesn't work, that's
not normal. Maybe you're missing the zlib development package.

> >   Well you don't have the DocBook DTDs in the catalogs.
>
> I see, I thought the DTD should have been supplied with the package.

  No. that's an another set of packages, it should.

> I recently switched to Linux and I'm still in the process of setting
> up my environment. The /etc/xml/catalog that came with SuSE
> 9.0 Professional is an empty skeleton, I don't know why.

  Well probably because you didn't install the associated packages.
again check with your SuSE support.

> > > ## 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
>
> Perhaps
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> would help with some issues of this type?

  I doubt it. The command is there, the #! marker is there. dbgenattr.pl
should be executable, that's not normal.

Daniel

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