Re: configure: error: header file is required for XML support

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Peter Roethlisberger
<peter.roethlisberger@gmail.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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