Ahh. I had a feeling that might be the case. It's the recompiling of perl/apache and installing them without messing up the distro which fills me with trepidation. I'm not a total newbie but going as far as recompiling these two is a little bit scary.
Could you give me some specific pointers to how best to compile/install them without messing up SUSE 9.0, specifically? As I said below my current problem seems to be with the finding of libxml2 - is that definitely going to be cured if I recompile from source? Any information you can provide me with on getting this running under SUSE would be REALLY appreciated - I really want to play with Axkit but I'm stumbling at the first hurdle! Peter. P.S. Don't know what the netiquette on this list is - only just joined - so if it's preferred I mailed off-list then please let me know! > -----Original Message----- > From: Kermit Tensmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 January 2004 4:31 AM > To: Edwards,PR,Peter,XJG4 R; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Axkit Installation on default SUSE 9.0 installation > > > (hmm) I'm reinstalling with suse 9.0 at this point, but for > the last 5 SuSE > releases, I've found better results, by -not- using the RPM's > (well I allow > the RPM's to be installed to mungle the dependcies list for > RPM), but I > install/recompile Perl, Apache, mod-perl and AxKit. > As soon as there is a problem, the first recomendation that > you will get > (most cases...) is to rebuild the packages with the latest revision. > And I have /never/ had success updating an RPM built perl with CPAN > modules. Your mileage will vary... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:47 AM > Subject: Axkit Installation on default SUSE 9.0 installation > > > Hi, > > Is there anyone who's managed to achieve the above and could > give me a few > pointers? > > I've been reading webpages and the mail archives for the past > three days and > just don't seem to be making any progress. If I could get > this working, I > think I'd be happy to reinstall it and write up the solution > for a WiKi page > like the two Red Hat installation descriptions currently available. > > From installation, I've installed the apache packages (not > Apache2 - tho I > made that mistake originally) along with the mod_perl module. > I confirmed > this was up and working by running a few perl scripts and > checking the logs > to make sure mod_perl was compiled. I also installed the > latest SUSE xml > library RPM's for: > > libxml2 > libxml2-devel > libxml2-python > libxslt > libxslt-devel > libxslt-python > > I believe these are installed correctly as I'm able to run > xmlconfig from > the command line. > > The default locale in /etc/sysconfig/language is temporarily > set to en_US to > avoid some of the posts I read regarding perl / UTF-8 issues. > > Naively, I hoped I could now install the required modules > from the CPAN > command line, finishing up with Axkit, as detailed in: > > http://axkit.org/wiki/view/AxKit/AxKitRedHat9AnotherWay# > > However, as soon as I reach install XML::LibXML::Common it > fails out due to > what appears to be (according to the mailing list archive) > the now familiar: > > > running xml2-config... ok > > looking for -lxml2... no > > looking for -llibxml2... no > > libxml2 not found > > Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line > > Or get libxml2 from > > http://www.libxml.org/ > > If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel > > RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are. > > So, what do I do here? I have definitely installed the > appropriate SUSE > RPMs. I've tried setting the LIBS, INC and PERL5LIB bash > variables to the > right location (I think it's /usr/include/libxml2) but that > doesn't seem to > have any affect on the CPAN shell. > > I've downloaded the source from xmlsoft.org but I don't know > if I should > install it. If I try to remove all of the libraries > mentioned above I get a > list of programs which depend on it, including gcc which I > will need to > compile the source code I want to replace it with! I also > have no idea how > to install the src version alongside the rpm (if that were possible). > > So ... can anyone point me in the right direction or show me > a mail I may > have missed which explains where I'm going wrong? > > Peter. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
