Re: [bugs #11134] ./configure meaningless error or similar

[Armando Di Cianno]

On 2004-11-25 15:13:53 -0500 Pupeno <noreply@savannah.gnu.org> wrote:
> Summary:  ./configure meaningless error or similar
>
> Original Submission:  While running ./configure on a very recent 
> gnustep-base 
> (grabbed with cvs a couple of hours ago) I had this error:
>
> checking for callback.h... no
> checking "for forwarding callback in runtime"... yes
> checking "FFI library usage"... libffi
> checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
> checking for libxml - version >= 2.3.0... no
> *** Could not run libxml test program, checking why...
>
> You most likely do not want to build base without XML support.
> For instance, MacOS-X compatible property lists require XML.
> If you really want to build -base without XML support, add 
> --disable-xml
> to the configure arguments.
> configure: error: Missing support for XML functionality.
> pupeno@lab base $
>
> I'm currently running gentoo and there's nothing with my xml, and in 
> fact, 
> the problem is with libffi, which is installed in /usr/lib/libffi/ 
> and 
> /usr/include/libffi. Maybe that's not nice and the ./configure script 
> can't 
> detect it, but even then, the error should be more accurte.

This is both a Gentoo bug and a GNUstep bug.  Something is wrong with 
the Gentoo ebuild in the user's setup, but for some reason, if the 
--with-ffi configure option are incorrect ./configure bombs out with a 
libxml2 error, and not a with-ffi error.

__Armando