| Subject: | Can't compile in Solaris 5.8: Makefile.PL can't find libxml2 which IS installed |
I'm trying to install XML::LibXML from Activeperl 5.7.8's CPAN on
Solaris 5.8. It failed with this mesage:
(....)
CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PH/PHISH/XML-LibXML-1.58.tar.gz
enable native perl UTF8
looking for -lxml2... no
looking for -llibxml2... no
libxml2 not found
Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line
Or get libxml2 from
http://xmlsoft.org/
If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel
RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are.
Running make test
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
Running make install
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install
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Ok, so I sucessfully compiled libxml2 from source, using Sun's C
compiler like this:
(I'm installing libxml2 to
/home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.4.22/SunOS/5.8)
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc ./configure \
--prefix=/home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.4.22/SunOS/5.8
make
make install
--------
Then I added /home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.4.22/SunOS/5.8/bin to
my PATH, so when I compiled XML::LibXML, libxml2 could be found, using
these commands:
cd /home4/thirdparty/software/activeperl/5.8.7/SunOS/5.8
cd .cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.58
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc \
/home4/thirdparty/software/activeperl/5.8.7/SunOS/5.8/bin/perl \
Makefile.PL \
LIBS='-L/home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.6.7/SunOS/5.8/lib' \
INC='-I/home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.6.7/SunOS/5.8/include' \
XMLPREFIX=/home4/thirdparty/software/libxml2/2.6.7/SunOS/5.8
...but the same error message persists! libxml2 is still "not found"!
Any advice to get around this? The checking for libxml2 seems to be
buggy somehow. Yes, I've scoured the included README file for help. It
seems like the version of libxml2 this has been tested against is 2.6.8,
which is back from 2004. What about supporting/finding the latest
version of libxml2, which is 2.6.24?