On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:28:44PM -0600, Michael Muratet US-Huntsville wrote: > Greetings > > I get the error 'configure: error: Could not find libxml2 anywhere, check > ftp://xmlsoft.org/' when I try to run ./configure in the libxslt-1.1.15 > directory. It started as an out-of-date-version message, so I fetched > libxml2-2.6.23 and built that. I used the defaults and got a libxml2.so etc > etc in /usr/local/lib. > > I am running on a Mandrake 10.1 linux box. I did a web search and found a > suggestion to install libxml2-devel and did, but the rpm installer (it only > comes as an rpm as far as I can tell) can't find the libxml2 library, either. > /usr/local/lib _is_ in ld.so.conf and I ran ldconfig just to be sure. I also > tried running configure for libxslt with the --with-libxml-prefix= and > --with-libxml-include-prefix= and --with-libxml-libs-prefix= args all set to > places where the files existed to no avail. > > I've pretty much used up all the ideas I had. Can anybody offer any > suggestions?
The version isnatlled by default with rpms on your system in /usr takes over the one you installed manually in /usr/local. Overriding system default RPMs with non-rpms install is a very bad strategy. Upgrade your system rpms to match the version you need. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
