Re: BUG #12275: configure incorrectly tests libxml2 version

greg.davidson@gmail.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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