CPAN.pm can't find libs

[kj]

I'm trying to get CPAN.pm to install XML::LibXML for me. It aborts
the installation with a message saying that it can't find libxml2,
even though libxml2.so.2 is in /usr/lib. I tried running CPAN with

$ LIB=/usr/lib perl -MCPAN -e shell

but I got the same error. How can I get CPAN to find libxml2?

Thanks!

kj

 

[James Willmore]

I'm trying to get CPAN.pm to install XML::LibXML for me. It aborts
the installation with a message saying that it can't find libxml2,
even though libxml2.so.2 is in /usr/lib. I tried running CPAN with

$ LIB=/usr/lib perl -MCPAN -e shell

but I got the same error. How can I get CPAN to find libxml2?

Do you have xml2-config available? The reason, if I remember correctly,
that the install is failing is not because you don't have the library -
it's because the command *used* to find the library is in some funky path.

See if you can execute `xml2-config`. If you can and it reports properly,
then the issue is something else. But I have a feeling that's the
problem.

HTH

Jim

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I'm trying to get CPAN.pm to install XML::LibXML for me. It aborts
the installation with a message saying that it can't find libxml2,
even though libxml2.so.2 is in /usr/lib.

A package manager - rpm, dpkg, Fink, something like that - will quite often
split libraries such as libxml2 into two packages; one with nothing but
the .so files which are used at run-time, and the other with the headers
and other tools needed at compile-time.

If you're using such a package manager (by whatever name), check to see if
there's an additional developer package for libxml2 and if so, if you have
installed it.

sherm--

 

[James Willmore]

A package manager - rpm, dpkg, Fink, something like that - will quite
often split libraries such as libxml2 into two packages; one with
nothing but the .so files which are used at run-time, and the other with
the headers and other tools needed at compile-time.

If you're using such a package manager (by whatever name), check to see
if there's an additional developer package for libxml2 and if so, if you
have installed it.

Which, on a SuSE 9.0 distro, is libxml2-devel-2.5.10-32. Which contains
/usr/bin/xml2-config. Which is what the OP needs to install XML::LibXML


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Jim

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