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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> redland-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> redland-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University email: [email protected] web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram _______________________________________________ redland-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev
