[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Compiling package for readanysf~

[Jason Plumb]

Charlie Thompson wrote:
> I'm relatively new to PD and to Linux, so please bear with me.

Don't worry, we'll go easy.  In fact, welcome to the dark side!  :)

> After that, it prints "Compilation in gmerlin failed" and exits. When I 
> search for libxml2 in Synaptic Package Manager, I find that this version 
> is already installed: 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4 (jaunty). If I reinstall it 
> and try again to run buildall.sh I get the same error.
> Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

Yeah, the problem there is almost certainly fixed by installing the 
libxml2-dev package.  The main libxml2 package is just for use at 
runtime.  The libxml2-dev package contains all the juicy bits needed to 
compile against it.  That's a common convention in Debian, Ubuntu, and 
likely other Linux distros too....so....any time you need to compile 
against a library, make sure you include the -dev package too.

Cheers,

-jason
http://noisybox.net