Re: [bug-gettext] building gettext with custom libxml2

[David Lukeš]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the swift response, both your suggestions are 
exactly
spot on! I'm off to report them to Spack so that they can update the package
definition. Thank you also for teaching me a little bit about resolving 
these
problems in general :)

Best,

David

On 10/22/2017 10:51 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > This is how configure was invoked:
> >
> > ./configure
> > --prefix=/cnk/common/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu12.04-x86_64/gcc-6.4.0/gettext-0.19.8.1-iyq7wap5sppgofyeunv7j36rvmeewop4
> > --disable-java --disable-csharp --with-included-glib
> > --with-included-gettext --with-included-libcroco --without-emacs
> > --with-lispdir=/cnk/common/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu12.04-x86_64/gcc-6.4.0/gettext-0.19.8.1-iyq7wap5sppgofyeunv7j36rvmeewop4/share/emacs/site-lisp/gettext
> > --without-cvs
> > --with-ncurses-prefix=/cnk/common/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu12.04-x86_64/gcc-6.4.0/ncurses-6.0-c7c4oxnzvvria76haxxvhnoej3zv65vh
> > --with-libxml2-prefix=/cnk/common/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu12.04-x86_64/gcc-6.4.0/libxml2-2.9.4-xdv2bdnzahsvgsfzgx5k3hp76kpstxqi
> > --with-included-libunistring
> The relevant option here is
>    
> --with-libxml2-prefix=/cnk/common/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu12.04-x86_64/gcc-6.4.0/libxml2-2.9.4-xdv2bdnzahsvgsfzgx5k3hp76kpstxqi
>
> On bi-arch platforms (like Ubuntu x86_64) libraries may be installed in
> $prefix/lib or $prefix/lib64. Maybe the configuration script has made the wrong
> guess about it. Try putting a symlink
>    $prefix/lib64 -> $prefix/lib
> or vice versa.
>
> If this hint does not help, then try not using this --with-libxml2-prefix
> option, and instead set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS:
>    CPPFLAGS="-I$prefix/include" LDFLAGS="-L$prefix/lib -Wl,-rpath,$prefix/lib"
> or
>    CPPFLAGS="-I$prefix/include" LDFLAGS="-L$prefix/lib64 
> -Wl,-rpath,$prefix/lib64"
>
> Bruno