Re: Re[2]: Problem compiling commonc++ 1.9.7

[Pierre]

On 2002.04.03 10:08 Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello Pierre,
>
> Please, keep posting to the list - I read it as do many other
> people...

ok sorry

> Tuesday, April 02, 2002, 10:44:05 PM, you wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> Well, it seems like you have some other xml parsing library than
> the
> >> one expected by CommonC++, or you don't have any at all :)
>
> P> I only have libxml2-2.4.19
>
> >> This means either that the configure script doesn't detect properly
>
> >> the presence
> >> of a xml library or that you specified manually the
> >> -I/usr/local/include/libxml2
> >> when invoking the configure script and this folder doesn't contain
> the
> >> include files necessary to compile xml.cpp.
>
> P> I don't specified manually anything :)
> P> But I can send you my config.log if you want.
>
> A good idea :)

Ok I attach it to this mail.

> P> The file parser.h on my system is at
> P> /usr/local/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h
>
> Well, obviously the configure script doesn't detect properly where the
> include files for the xml library are located.... I tried to
> understand what exactly does configure do to detect the xml library
> but with no success - I'm not good at shell scripting :( Still I
> undestand that it uses an environment variable to allow the user to
> pass custom  setting - XML2_CONFIG i think... Maybe you have this one
> set ?

No, i have no environnement variable like this.
But i think that you have to use the pkg-config command :
# pkg-config xml2 --cflags  -I/usr/local/include/libxml2
You set this to a variable for ex. VAR and then you add $(VAR)/libxml
to the includes path.

> >>
> >> However if you don't need xml support at all you can pass the
> >> --without-xml option to the configure script and the compilation
> will
> >> just skip over xml.cpp.
> >>
>
> P> Yes it's a solution too, but it's better if it can compile with xml
> no ?
>
> Well, it depends if you need this functionality i think :)

Yes :)

Pierre.

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