Re: [xml] Docbook compilation error

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> In future, could you supply a pointer to docbook2x -- I had to do some
> hunting around to find out what it was

Sorry I forgot :)

I'm building against libxml2 on Linux.


> Given the lack of other reports about compilation failures like
> this, I suspect docbook2x.

Cf. point 2 ("compilation error", the "segmentation fault" is most probably due to something else) of
http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/install-procedure.html#install-problems


> You can define pointers to structures even though the structure
> definition is not available. A pointer is the same size, no matter what
> it points to. This is a typical way to define an opaque pointer.

Your conjecture and Daniel's solution did the trick. So thanks to both of you.

-Mario

P.S.: Sorry the previous post went to the wrong mailing list :-(