Ahah! With some more poking around I discovered the problem was that I was missing some of the gcc packages - specifically the ones required for g++. Nothing to do with expat after all! The configure script output was just a plain lie!
So now I'm over that, I'm getting a very specific error -- included below -- from Sablot (I get the same with 0.98, 1.0 and 1.0.1 versions of Sablot) because of the version of expat I have used. I installed that specific, older, version because the http://www.axkit.org/wiki/view/AxKit/AxKitRedHat9# page includes a specific patch for it which I thought might be necessary for Axkit to work. So what do I do here .... remove my version of expat and upgrade it to a new version? If so, will it need patching again? Will the patch on the wiki page still work (guessing not)? Cheers, "Getting closer" Peter. sams:/home/samwise/Documents/src/sablot/Sablot-1.0.1 # ./configure --includedir=/usr/local/include checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking XML::Parser perl module... yes configure: Setting html dir to ${prefix}/share/doc/html checking whether to build under GPL... no checking whether to build the debugger... no checking where to find xml parser... expat (new) checking expat.h usability... no checking expat.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: expat.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: expat.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: expat.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ## checking for expat.h... yes checking whether expat.h is broken... yes configure: error: You probably have expat version 1.95.6. Please refer to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=676844&group_id=10127&atid=110127 for a description of the problem. sams:/home/samwise/Documents/src/sablot/Sablot-1.0.1 # --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
