[redland-dev] cannot configure raptor2-2.0.6 on ubuntu 11.04

[Bob Morris]

Yup.  I figured that out from logs as suggested by Dave, but neglected
to reply to list. Thanks.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Lauri Aalto <laalto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> you'll need the development packages for libxml2/expat, not just the
> .so binaries. Install e.g. libxml2-dev or libexpat1-dev and try again.
>
> Lauri
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Dave Beckett <dave at dajobe.org> wrote:
>> You need to look at the output of config.log to see what tests failed and
>> you can try the code fragments yourself
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 12/17/11 7:14 AM, Bob Morris wrote:
>>> on my Dell Studio XPS running Ubuntu 11.04.  raptor2-2.0.6 configure fails with
>>>    "checking XML parser to use... configure: error: No XML parser
>>> available - please install expat or libxml"
>>>
>>>   Yet both libxml and expat are installed, e.g.
>>>    ~:  ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2* returns
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2011-11-12 15:23 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
>>> -> libxml2.so.2.7.8
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1212948 2011-06-16 10:04 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.8
>>>
>>> One thing: Dell curiously delivers the machine with an i386 kernel:
>>>    ~: uname -a
>>> Linux milne 2.6.38-13-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 28 19:41:58
>>> UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> however,  ./configure --build=i386
>>> has the same failure to find libxml
>>>
>>> On an Ubuntu 11.10 system with the x86_64 kernel,   raptor2-2.0.6
>>> confirgured without incident
>>>
>>> Suggestions welcome
>>>
>>>
>>> --Bob Morris
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