On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to install Dia 0.86 on a Redhat 6.1 box and keep getting
> the error:
>
> checking for libxml >= 1.8.5... configure: error: you need libxml >=
> 1.8.5 for this version of dia
>
> I installed libxml2-2.2.2 to cure this problem (and ran ldconf) but I am
^
There is your problem. I believe libxml2 is a very different and probably
totally incompatible beast than libxml. Get a version >= 1.8.5 of libxml
and try again.
> getting the same error.
>
> Should I hack the install script or have I missed a step somewhere in
> the process?
Remember also to install libxml-devel, which is needed for compilation. If
you only have libxml-1.8.x, you can only use a precompiled version (RPM).
-Lars
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