configure cannot find libxml2

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I wan to rebuild a source rpm package (cfengine). configure doesn’t find libxml2 but I have already installed libxml2 and libxml2-devel. I don’t know why…

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Please do nott (only) tell stories, but show the computer text you get so people here can make their own assessments of your problem, not influenced by your interpretation.

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daylight1 wrote:
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> I wan to rebuild a source rpm package (cfengine). configure doesn’t find
> libxml2 but I have already installed libxml2 and libxml2-devel. I don’t
> know why…
>
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Better approach would have been to install it from the repos
http://software.opensuse.org/package/cfengine

GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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More specific what I’m doing.

> rpmbuild --rebuild cfengine-3.5.2-65.1.src.rpm
Installing cfengine-3.5.2-65.1.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a0e46e11
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7504
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ rm -rf cfengine-3.5.2
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/cfengine-3.5.2.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0



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checking acl/libacl.h presence... yes
checking for acl/libacl.h... yes
checking for xmlFirstElementChild in -lxml2... no
configure: error: Cannot find libxml2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62819 (%build)




RPM build errors:
    InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a0e46e11
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62819 (%build)
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And which versions of libxml2 and libxml2-devel do you have?

Apparently, xmlFirstElementChild is only available since libxml 2.7.3:
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/303

And cfengine doesn’t support older versions anymore:
https://github.com/cfengine/core/pull/340

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The installed versions are older. Both packages have the version 2.6.23-15.37.1. That means that I have no chance to get it working?

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Apparently not.

Either build an older version of cfengine, or install newer libxml2 packages.

On which distribution/version are you trying to build, btw?
Even 10.2 (7 years old!) included a higher version (2.6.26) already…