Re: BUG #12275: configure incorrectly tests libxml2 version

greg(dot)davidson(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:

> I had to comment out the libxml2 version check to get 9.4.0 to build.
> Perhaps it's because of the suffix on the version number?
> $ ./configure --with-libxml --with-libxslt --enable-debug --enable-cassert
> \
> --with-tcl --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.6 --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-9.4.0
> ...
> checking for xmlSaveToBuffer in -lxml2... no
> configure: error: library 'xml2' (version >= 2.6.23) is required for XML
> support

I have 2.9.1 Debian-packaged here, and it works fine for me. config.log
says:

configure:8767: checking for xmlSaveToBuffer in -lxml2
configure:8801: result: yes

> $ dpkg-query -l '*xml2*'
> ||/ Name Version Arch Description
> +++-==================-=======================-======-===========================================
> ii libxml2:amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4 amd64 GNOME XML library
> ii libxml2:i386 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4 i386 GNOME XML library
> ii libxml2-dev:amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4 amd64 Development files for
> the GNOME XML library
> ii libxml2-doc 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4 all Documentation for the
> GNOME XML library
> ii libxml2-utils 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4 amd64 XML utilities

I don't have the :i386 packages installed here; maybe your compiler is
picking up those instead of the amd64 ones.

ii libxml2:amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-4 amd64 GNOME XML library
ii libxml2-dev:amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-4 amd64 Development files for the GNOME XML library
ii libxml2-utils 2.9.1+dfsg1-4 amd64 XML utilities

> P.S. I hope that the appearance of line clipping I'm seeing above is an
> illusion. Perhaps the bug report textentry widget should have room for 80
> character wide pastes from terminals?

No such luck, but I don't think it's all that critical anyway.

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