Re: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-11 Thread Marcus Williams
On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: Marcus! You still there? It's time you did the URL:http://cygwin.com/problems.html cygcheck thing. (Attachment, not in the body text, please!) Still with you - just away from work email briefly. I'll check out my path for xmlcatalog first as I've got other

Re: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-11 Thread Marcus Williams
On 11/01/2006 Marcus Williams wrote: Still with you - just away from work email briefly. I'll check out my path for xmlcatalog first as I've got other (gnu etc) stuff installed that might be clashing. Then I'll try the cygcheck way Looks like that was it - xmlcatalog was lying around in

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: Hi - I'm currently trying to reinstall cygwin but I'm unable to because during the final stages of installation something is complaining about xmlcatalog.exe being unable to find libxml2.dll. This causes the whole installation to fail and then tries to rewind (failing

Re: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Marcus Williams
On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. Nope - still got the same problem. I tried installing

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. Nope - still got the same problem.

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. Nope - still got

Re: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Marcus Williams
On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: Your quickest workround would probably be either rebuilding xmlcatalog from source, giving it the --disable-shared option at configure time so it builds and links against the static libxml2.a, or to rebuild the libxml2-devel package from source (default options

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: This must be a real packaging error. Looks like the maintainer might have compiled libxml2-devel with --disable-shared and then compiled xmlcatalog with --enable-shared. Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging error in

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Marcus Williams wrote: On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: Your quickest workround would probably be either rebuilding xmlcatalog from source, giving it the --disable-shared option at configure time so it builds and links against the static libxml2.a, or to rebuild the libxml2-devel package from

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Making a habit of correcting myself today... d'oh! Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging error in libxml2 package itself. It contains the dll, but the maintainer forgot to package it with the correct

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Making a habit of correcting myself today... d'oh! And following-up to my own posts, but this is worth saying too: maintainer forgot to package it with the correct prefix. You might be able to fix the problem by a

Re: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Just to clarify: it is entirely standard for cygwin apps to use non-standard cygXXX names for cygwin dlls to link against. It would be very nonstandard of xmlcatalog to link against a dll with a standard libXXX name. Right. And you should not find any package in the

RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Just to clarify: it is entirely standard for cygwin apps to use non-standard cygXXX names for cygwin dlls to link against. It would be very nonstandard of xmlcatalog to link against a dll with a standard libXXX name. Right. And you should not