Setting environment variables for LIBXML2

[Nathan]

I'm pretty darned green with -nix. Sorry.

It took me all day to figure out two things:
1. setting environment variables means putting the variable assignments into the command line, not modifying a file
2. get the values for LIBXML2_CFLAGS and LIBXML2_LIBS from xml2-config --cflags and xml2-config --libs

--libs returns a string with spaces, so putting that string in single quotes when running ./configure is what is expected, right? So ...

./configure --prefix=/usr --LIBXML2_CFLAGS='-I/usr/include/libxml2' --LIBXML2_LIBS='-lxml2 -lz -lpthread -licucore -lm'
Right?

Thank you.

[Stephen Rhodes]

Hi Nathan,

Thank you so much for your comment. It looks like you are pretty close, so you have probably figured this out already, my apologies for the late response. I think what you are looking for is the

./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libxml2"

setting for the build. You can also get a lot of information from the

./configure --help

command which will give you information about the settings needed for the program.