Re: 0.8.5 Compile errors

[Daniel Harper]

Thanks for the help.

I just grabbed the 0.8.5 release tarball from here
http://mirror.lagoon.nc/pub/gnu/pspp/

I do indeed have xmllint installed on this system ...

/usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp> locate xmllint
/usr/bin/xmllint
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-devel-2.6.26/xmllint.html
/usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim70/compiler/xmllint.vim

/usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp> xmllint --version
xmllint: using libxml version 20626
   compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer
SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N Catalog XPath XPointer
XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas
Schematron Modules Debug
address@hidden /usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp>

But it looks like I don't have that xpath option as the libxml2
centos5 version is a bit old now.

/usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp/pspp-0.8.5> xmllint --xpath
Unknown option --xpath

I have been running 0.7.9 as it fixed a specific bug that I found at the time.

Thanks again,

Daniel


On 20 August 2015 at 06:42, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:04:07PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>      On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:57:04AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>>      > You need to install the xmllint program.  I have no idea where that is
>>      > on Cento  - ask a Cento expert.
>>
>>      I guess that we should probably document that xmllint is necessary, and
>>      perhaps modify configure.ac to report an error if it is missing.
>>
>>      I don't understand what the xmllint invocations are doing, though.
>>
>> They are merely checking that the xml is valid if I recall correctly.
>
> OK.  I guess that the correct thing to do, then, would be to skip the
> tests if xmllint is not available?
>
>> What interests me however, is why they are getting called at all.  I
>> thought xmllint was only necessary when bootstrapping - it should not
>> be required when building from the released tarball if I recall
>> correctly.  Unless of course Daniel modified something in the
>> documentation sources.
>
> Daniel--did you build from a release tarball or from some other source?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.



-- 
Cheers,

Daniel