Re: libxml2 and libreadline are not found

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> configure: WARNING: The following optional prerequisites are not installed.
> You may wish to install them to obtain additional functionality:
>         libxml2
>         libreadline (which may itself require libncurses or libtermcap)
>
> but I have libxml2:
>
> $ ls /usr/local/lib/libxml2*
> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.a              /usr/local/lib/libxml2.la*            
> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.8.30*

Is -L/usr/local/lib in LDFLAGS?  You might also need to have
/usr/local/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

> $ ls /usr/lib/libreadline*    
> /usr/lib/libreadline.a                /usr/lib/libreadline_p.a
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0           /usr/lib/libreadline_pic.a

config.log makes it look like you have libreadline but not
libhistory.  Is that really the case?  PSPP doesn't currently
handle that combination and treats it as if you don't have
libreadline at all.
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Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org