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

[Christian Anthon]

The INSTALL file should tell you what you need. I'm not 100% sure that
it is up to date though.

Christian.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Misja Alma <address@hidden> wrote:
> That did the trick!
>
> Tx,
> Misja
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Christian Anthon
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 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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