Re: the configure file of gnustep-base 1.20.1 check incorrectly the version of libxml2

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Oct 2010, at 13:04, florent barraco wrote:

> hello i use libxml 2.6 and i tried to configure gnustep-base 1.20 and the 
> configuration failed because it found a version of libxml older than 2.3.0 
> but that was not true because the version i used was 2.6, i also tried with 
> libxml 2.3.0 (the minimum version requied) but the configuration didn't 
> worked too.
> i use CentOS linux 5.5.
> 
> here the terminal output using lib libxml 2.3.0

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> checking for xml2-config... /usr/local/bin/xml2-config
> checking for libxml - version >= 2.3.0... no

It seems that you have an older (or possibly incorrectly/partially installed) 
version of libxml2 in /usr/local

The 'local' installation overrides the default system installation ... which is 
reasonable if you think about it ... if you have added a non-standard version 
of a library, it is natural to presume that you want to use it.

To use the standard version of libxml2, you can either remove the installation 
in /usr/local, or you can use the --with-xml-prefix= option (try configure 
--help for information) to specify the location for the version of the library 
you want to use.