Re: configure: error: header file <libxml/parser.h> is required for XML support

Hi Peter

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Roethlisberger
<peter(dot)roethlisberger(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hey Dave,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. The path is correct:
>
>  # ls -l /usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39556 Sep 15 10:07
> /usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h

But the path you have is:

/usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml

and the included file is

libxml/parser.h

Put those together and you get:

/usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml/libxml/parser.h

*not*

/usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h

Regards, Dave

> I first used /usr/local/libxml2/include/ which did not work. Doing a find
> for parser.h made me change the include path.
> Could possibly the version of libxml2 be an issue: 2-2.7.7 ???
>
> Thx: Peter
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Peter Roethlisberger
>> <peter(dot)roethlisberger(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I try to configure postgres:
>> >
>> > /configure --prefix=/usr/local/postgresql-8.4.4/ \
>> > --without-docdir \
>> > --with-openssl \
>> > --with-libxml \
>> > --with-libxslt \
>> >
>> > --with-libraries=/usr/local/openssl:/lib:/lib64:/usr/local/readline/lib:/usr/local/zlib/lib:/usr/local/openssl/lib64:/usr/local/libxml2/lib:/usr/local/libxslt/lib
>> > \
>> >
>> > --with-includes=/usr/local/readline/include:/usr/local/zlib/include:/usr/local/openssl/include:/usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml:/usr/local/libxslt/include
>> >
>> > Now even though parser.h can be found in the includes path it claims:
>> >
>> > configure: error: header file <libxml/parser.h> is required for XML
>> > support
>>
>> Your include path contains /usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml,
>> so Postgres is probably looking for
>> /usr/local/libxml2/include/libxml2/libxml/libxml/parser.h, which I
>> suspect is wrong. Try removing the extra "/libxml" from the include
>> path.
>>
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