in reply to XML::LibXML installation woes (or, whence that library file?)

You want to check out xmlsoft.org. I don't think libxml/libxslt comes standard with any linux distribution... yet

By the way I had to go into the code and fix a few things when I installed libxml/libxslt ( I forget which ) on my RedHat 7.1 a while back

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Re: Re: XML::LibXML installation woes (or, whence that library file?)
by AidanLee (Chaplain) on Dec 19, 2001 at 23:06 UTC
    I just installed the most recent version of libxml myself. As to needing to fix things in the source, my C is incredibly rusty and I wouldn't know where to look to fix the above mentioned problem (seemingly absent library)

      Well, not much I can do without having access to your machine, but have you tried using "find" ? I forget off hand what the library name was, but your could do something like find / -name <libraryname> to see if the library files were properly installed.

      As for the C fix, if libxml still needed it, then the installation wouldn't have worked... if it did work for you, then I guess the problem was fixed.

      Sorry for not being too helpful. It was a while back that I installed libxml, and I don't have my machine handy with me at this point

      UPDATE: I think these are the files... you might just want to add wherever these files are installed in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable when you try to install XML::LibXML

      me@myhost me> ls /usr/local/lib
      libexslt.a         libxml2.a         libxslt.a         perl5
      libexslt.la        libxml2.la        libxslt.la        pkgconfig
      libexslt.so        libxml2.so        libxslt.so        xml2Conf.sh
      libexslt.so.0      libxml2.so.2      libxslt.so.1      xsltConf.sh
      libexslt.so.0.6.0  libxml2.so.2.4.7  libxslt.so.1.0.6
      me@myhost me>