From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 26050@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26050: 25.2; configure: no libxml2 support with libxml2 installed
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:49:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvctdl1g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuil0y9i.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Cc: 26050@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:42:17 -0500
>
> Sorry, this was a user error.
No worries.
> configure-test:16329: checking for LIBXML2
> configure-test:16338: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libxml-2.0 > 2.6.17"
> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libxml-2.0' found
> configure-test:16341: $? = 1
> configure-test:16361: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libxml-2.0 > 2.6.17"
> Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxml-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libxml-2.0' found
> configure-test:16364: $? = 1
> configure-test:16381: result: no
> No package 'libxml-2.0' found
>
> Now that everything works, it says:
>
> configure:16328: checking for LIBXML2
> configure:16335: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libxml-2.0 > 2.6.17"
> configure:16338: $? = 0
> configure:16352: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libxml-2.0 > 2.6.17"
> configure:16355: $? = 0
> configure:16393: result: yes
> configure:16428: checking for htmlReadMemory in -lxml2
> configure:16453: gcc -o conftest -g3 -O2 conftest.c -lxml2 -lxml2 -lX11 >&5
> configure:16453: $? = 0
> configure:16462: result: yes
>
> Is it my imagination, or was there a time in the past when
> configure printed a friendly message suggesting the installation
> of the development package for a library when it failed to find
> something like this?
The configure script still does that, but the above message comes from
pkg-config related tests, not from configure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-10 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-10 16:07 bug#26050: 25.2; configure: no libxml2 support with libxml2 installed N. Jackson
2017-03-10 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-10 18:42 ` N. Jackson
2017-03-10 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-03-10 19:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-10 16:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-10 17:58 ` Glenn Morris
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