Re: [Bug-gnubg] error when building gnubg on ubuntu

[Christian Anthon]

You need the development libraries of libxml, named something similar
to libxml2-devel.

Christian.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Misja Alma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to build gnubg from the 27-5 cvs snapshot on a fresh ubuntu
> 8.04 install, but when I ran the configure script I got the error that the
> libxml2.0 package could not be found. However, I did install it. Here is the
> last bit of the output I got:
>
> checking whether to build shared libraries... no
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> configure: creating libtool
> appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
> appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
> checking for bison... bison -y
> checking for flex... flex
> checking lex output file root... lex.yy
> checking lex library... -lfl
> checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for GLIB... yes
> checking for GTHREAD... yes
> checking for LIBXML2... configure: error: Package requirements (libxml-2.0)
> were not met:
>
> No package 'libxml-2.0' found
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBXML2_CFLAGS
> and LIBXML2_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
>
> address@hidden:~/gnubg$ sudo apt-get install libxml2
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> libxml2 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> Who knows what is wrong?
>
> Cheers,
> Misja
>
>
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