[xml] Problem building libxml2-2.6.20

["Cesar Ortiz" <cesar ortiz gmail com>]

Hi,

The platform used for the building is: Linux  2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP. It is a Red Hat EAS.

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If I do ./configure + make, it builds nicely [1].
But if I do  ./configure --prefix=/home/fast/Alejandria/ --with-python=/home/fast/Alejandria/bin/python2.4 it does not [2]:

make[2]: Cambiando a directorio `/home/fast/software/lxml/libxml2-2.6.20'
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc  -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls   -o xmllint  
xmllint.o ./libxml2.la  -lz  -lm
gcc -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -o .libs/xmllint 
xmllint.o  ./.libs/libxml2.so -ldl -lz -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/fast/Alejandria//lib
./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_once'
./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [xmllint] Error 1
make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/home/fast/software/lxml/libxml2-
2.6.20'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/home/fast/software/lxml/libxml2-2.6.20'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Is it a configuration error? How could I add manualy the pthread library?

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But when I do make tests in [1] I get:

## running Python regression tests
        ./nsdel.py:15: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
      File "./nsdel.py", line 15
        
yield n
          ^
        SyntaxError: invalid syntax
        -- nsdel.py

May it be because the default configure uses python 2.2?

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A last question....
We´ve been using libxml2 for a while, but compiled without-threads and for python 2.3.5
. And now I have noticed that 'make tests' fails:

## running Python regression tests
-- thread2.py
FAILED to obtain correct value for lineNumbersDefault in thread 56966064

Is this failing ok? I might be, because the 'without-threads' flag.

Thanks, Cesar