Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] make error: cannot find expat ?

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

martin wrote:
> trying to ./configure && make the 1.3.2. source on linux ubuntu 6.10 
> brings up something like:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [gpsbabel] Error 1
> 
> could somebody shed some light on this ?

The autoconf plumbing shoudl detect that you don't have expat and 
suspend use of it if it's not present.  The pertinent lines from
the ./configure phase are:

checking for libexpat... -lexpat
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes


But debugging the case when it's not found is probably harder than just
installing whatever package on your system provides the expat development
libraries.  RedHat & Fedora call this 'expat-devel' but I don't know what
that translates to in Ubutnu.

RJL