Re: ./configure pb or faulty configure.in?
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:12:59 -0700
Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@titan.ecs.fullerton.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 08:34, messmate wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i've to compile 'gshieldconf-0.40 on my sarge.
>> On the configure
>> the following messages appears :
>>
>> loading cache ./config.cache
>> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>[snip...]
>> checking for xml-config... no
>> checking for libxml... checking for xml2-config... (cached) no
>> checking for libxml2... no
>> *** Could not find libxml. Check out the libxml homepage at
>> *** http://www.xmlsoft.org or just get
>> *** the appropriate package for your system.
>> configure: error: libxml needed
>>
>> This seems that xml2-config isn't found !
>> But it's there :
>> locate xml2-config
>> /usr/bin/xml2-config
>> /usr/share/man/man1/xml2-config.1.gz
>
>
>It's looks like you may have run configure and found that you didn't
>have the library so you went and got it. Now configure is using cached
>values and still thinks it's missing.
>
>Try dumping the cache and running configure again. If it still doesn't
>find it then check the configure.in or configure.am and see how it's
>being tested for.
>
The configure-cache is empty.
Deleting it don't help.
A bug in the script ?
mess-mate
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