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From: Doug Hunley <doug.hunley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fix for getting libxml2 compiled!
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:00:43
Message-Id: CALxYTP5bFtb6pP=tEJ_-UCv0fBmt0S4Q4QnaPK3fNUPwk3xMrA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Fix for getting libxml2 compiled! by "Roland Häder"
1 On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM, "Roland Häder" <r.haeder@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this:
5 >
6 > # emerge expat
7 > # emerge python
8 > # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/
9 > # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild
10 > # cd -
11 >
12 > This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the package is still not compiling because of a missing .so file, see this:
13 >
14 > # cd /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/
15 > # ln -sf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so .
16 >
17 > If I don't do this a python script in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1/work/libxml2-2.8.0/python-2.7/ called generate.py (you have to call this python2.7 ./generate.py) will fail.
18 >
19 > Hope this saves someones endless hours.
20 >
21 > Regards,
22 > Roland
23 >
24 > PS: There are a lot warnings compiling libxml2, you may want to fix them.
25 >
26 > I have used this to build libxml2: (temporary)
27 > USE="-ipv6 readline -debug -doc -examples -icu lzma python -static-libs -test"
28 >
29
30 Weird, I'm on 2.8.0-r1 and didn't have to do any hoop jumping to get
31 there (~amd64).
32
33 --
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