X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cannot install - xmlcatalog cannot find libxml2 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:57:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > Marcus Williams wrote: >> On 10/01/2006 Dave Korn wrote: >>> You need libxml2-devel for that file (enter 'libxml2.dll' at >>> http://cygwin.com/packages). It should have been automatically selected >>> when you selected libxml2, but there may be a missing dependency. >> >> Nope - still got the same problem. I tried installing everything this >> time (setting All to "All @ Install") >> > > Whoops! You're right, what I saw in there was only the export library > libxml2.dll.a. > > This must be a real packaging error. Looks like the maintainer might > have compiled libxml2-devel with "--disable-shared" and then compiled > xmlcatalog with "--enable-shared". > > Your quickest workround would probably be either rebuilding xmlcatalog > from source, giving it the "--disable-shared" option at configure time so > it builds and links against the static libxml2.a, or to rebuild the > libxml2-devel package from source (default options this time) so as to > generate your own copy of libxml2.dll. > Nope, that's not it. I think I /have/ traced it now: it's a packaging error in libxml2 package itself. It contains the dll, but the maintainer forgot to package it with the correct prefix. You might be able to fix the problem by a rename: mv /bin/cygxml2-2.dll /bin/libxml2.dll cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/