Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] compile problem

[Bob S. <bo...@sc...>]

> From: Gregory Leblanc <gle...@cu...>
> 
> On 18 Dec 2000 09:52:39 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > I'm downloaded scrollkeeper-0.0.2.tar.tz, but I'm not
> > able to compile it on my system (Caldera LTP).  Configure runs
> > OK, but when I run make, I get:
> > 
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/bobs/scrollkeeper-0.0.2/cl/src'
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/libxml -I/usr/include    -g -
> > O2 -c preinstall.c
> > preinstall.c: In function `update_doc_url_in_omf_file':
> > preinstall.c:39: structure has no member named `childs'
> > 
> > If I look in /usr/include/libxml where the structure xmlNodePtr
> > should be defined, I see that it has no "childs" member.  I have
> > a feeling I have the wrong libxml.  I need the Gnome libxml,
> > right?  The files in my /usr/include/libxml seem to have come
> > from W3C.  
> 
> libxml is written by Daniel Veillard (no, I can't speel in english, let
> alone french), who works for the w3c.  The package is "sort of" under
> the auspices of GNOME, but probably because at the time he developed it,
> there weren't other alternatives that were so open.  
> Ok, enough politics, time to fix the problem.  IIRC, Caldera uses RPM.
> Did you install your copy of libxml from RPM?  If so, try 'rpm -q
> libxml' to find out what version you have.  If you installed libxml from
> a tarball, try looking at the libraries that it installed, probably in
> /usr/lib.  (called libxml.so.?.?.?).  The very latest and greates is
> libxml 1.8.10, although there is a libxml 2 available as well.  I don't
> think libxml 2 will work with scrollkeeper.
> Upgrading to a newer libxml (rpmfind.net is your friend) should fix
> things, but I'm curious as to what version you have that is causing this
> to break.

Thanks for clarifying.  The libxml on this system
is indeed 2.0.0, as shown by 'rpm -q libxml'.
It does not work with scrollkeeper. Looks like I need
to upgrade to an *older* libxml.  8^)

bobs
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