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  Mon Oct 22 06:00:49 2012 lrw4400 [...] att.net - Ticket created
Subject: Build error when using non-standard libxml2 installation
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:00:25 -0700
To: bug-XML-LibXML [...] rt.cpan.org
From: L RW <lrw4400 [...] att.net>
I ran into a build problem when trying to link to a libxml2 that had been installed into a non-standard location. XML::LibXML version 2.00007 uname: Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl: 5.10.1 The error I got upon running perl Makefile.PL was: libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been 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. After various efforts to rebuild libxml2, I started to think that it was actually installed correctly all along and that the Makefile.PL wasn't finding it properly for some reason. After digging a bit I found that adding "LIBS => $config{LIBS}" to the call to check_lib fixed the problem. The call to Devel::CheckLib::check_lib was returning false because it didn't know to look in the right directory for the library. I also added "debug => $config{DEBUG}" to the same call FYI, it might come in handy as well. Not sure if this is really a Makefile bug or if there was a different way I could have resolved the issue, but I figured I'd mention it just in case. Thanks for a great module!
  Mon Oct 22 06:17:25 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi L, thanks for reporting it. I now fixed it in XML-LibXML-2.0008 . I did not add the "debug" thing because I saw no mentions of it in the Devel::CheckLib document. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish On Mon Oct 22 06:00:49 2012, lrw4400@att.net wrote: Show quoted text
> > I ran into a build problem when trying to link to a libxml2 that had > been installed into a non-standard location. > > XML::LibXML version 2.00007 > uname: Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Perl: 5.10.1 > > The error I got upon running perl Makefile.PL was: > > libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been 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. > > After various efforts to rebuild libxml2, I started to think that it > was actually installed correctly all along and that the Makefile.PL > wasn't finding it properly for some reason. After digging a bit I > found that adding "LIBS => $config{LIBS}" to the call to check_lib > fixed the problem. The call to Devel::CheckLib::check_lib was > returning false because it didn't know to look in the right > directory for the library. I also added "debug => $config{DEBUG}" > to the same call FYI, it might come in handy as well. > > Not sure if this is really a Makefile bug or if there was a different > way I could have resolved the issue, but I figured I'd mention it > just in case. Thanks for a great module! > > >
  Mon Oct 22 06:17:27 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Oct 22 06:17:27 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'