I have a situation similar to make test failed - "Your setup of library paths is incorrect! ... I need to get XML::LibXSLT running on a CentOS-5 box.   This package needs a version of libxslt that 1.1.18 or better; the standard CentOS package is 1.1.17.

(Edit:   looking closer at the above post, not quite the same situation at all ... in the above thread they are installing the Perl package not the libxslt.so library.   But this is the only one of two postings returned by Super Search that actually contained the keys requested, centos libxslt.)

Following the instructions in https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21759, I “succeeded” in installing an RPM package that ostensibly will provide what I need here (vs. my customary procedure of installing through CPAN) is quite a bit less than satisfactory ... I would much prefer to have a current version of libxslt on this box and to then install the Perl package in the usual way.   (The package chose a vendor_perl directory for its booty, and I would have to monkey a lot of things to accommodate this “odd man out” machine.   Yuck.)

Does anyone out there have recent experience in updating from source libxslt, presumably from source, on this particular OS release?   Or a web-reference to the same?   (I have indeed installed things “from source” many times, but not on this particular OS release, and I am quite unabashedly taking a “just get ’er done” objective here.   I really don’t want to spend a lot of time, or a lot of thought, on this, if I can avoid doing so.   I also don’t want to monkey with upgrading a Linux box that is a thousand miles away.)