RE: [xml] problem building libxml2 rpm: missing macros.python file

["Jesse Pelton" <jsp PKC com>]

I think Daniel may be saying that it is the package manager itself (RPM)
that is at fault. Have you tried installing libxml2 on each of the Red
Hat machines you have?  If it works on some but not all, it might
support this hypothesis.

Caveat: being a Gentoo guy when I'm not on Windows, I'm about as far
from an expert on RPM as it's possible to be.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-admin gnome org [mailto:xml-admin gnome org] On 
> Behalf Of Sood, Sanjeev
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:43 PM
> To: veillard redhat com
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: RE: [xml] problem building libxml2 rpm: missing 
> macros.python file
>
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks again for your time. I understand the problem little better.
>
> If this is a possible issue with my installation, what could 
> I be doing
> wrong? I have 4 systems here with 4 different RedHat versions 
> (from 7.1,
> 8.0. 9.0), but none of them seem to have this file. Do I need 
> to run any
> other rpm command to generate this file? I am fairly new to 
> using Linux
> and it could easily be a user error on my part. I will appreciate any
> tips you can give me on this. Do you see this file on your 
> systems where
> possibly you have installed libxml or any other rpms? If so, 
> can I get a
> copy of this file?
>
> Thanks again, and Best regards,
> -Sanjeev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: Sood, Sanjeev
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] problem building libxml2 rpm: missing macros.python
> file
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:24:42AM -0700, Sood, Sanjeev wrote:
> > I appreciate you taking time in responding to my question. I didn't
> > follow your answer correctly. You say that it seems to be a problem
> with
> > my rpm installation. Are you referring to the python rpm? I 
> also have
> a
> > system with Redhat 9.0 and even that has the same python rpm, and
> > macros.python file doesn't seem to be around. 
>
>   The file you are missing will *not* come from a problem with 
> the python or python-rpm package. It is *rpm* which is asking for
> this, you will have to check your installation, this is in no way
> related to libxml2 as far as I can tell (and I worked with those
> tools for years).
>
> Daniel
>
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