Re: [VCDImager] Help Compiling vcdimager

[Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto]

Hmmm... Well, I can't even try this out as I reinstalled slackware this 
morning (had other problems, and I was running slackware 8.1RC1).

At any rate, I suspected this was flakiness caused by using a release 
candidate or something I hosed up while messing with it.

Here is the text of a solution to a similar problem I found on with a 
dejanews (google groups) search; maybe it'll help:

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I discovered the answer...for some reason, in the 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include directory there was a 
recursive symbolic link: sys -> sys
I removed it and created a new symbolic link, sys -> /usr/include/sys 
(although I probably did not need to since /usr/include/sys is part of the 
path.)
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I'm not sure how to interpret headers from this mailing list, but it 
appears you replied to this post directly to my email address.  Please 
address email to the mailing list so all can share and enjoy.  If that's 
what you did, sorry for griping.


Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto.

At 06:50 PM 7/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> I am getting the same thing.  I think the problem is the include for 
> libxml2 needs to me -I/usr/include/libxml2/libxml but I am not sure where 
> to change this at.
>
> Karl and Tanya Pizzolatto wrote:
> > I have problems compiling vcdimager-0.7.12:
> > Right now, I'm not getting a clean ./configure:  (I tried a make anyhow, 
> > and all the xml stuff failed to make).  So, one thing at a time:
> > Here is the warning outputted by running ./configure
> > configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
> > checking for libxml - version > 2.3.8... no
> > Then configure tells me it couldn't run libxml test program; failed to 
> > compile or link.  I do have libxml 2.4.22 and libxml-devel 2.4.22 installed.
> > Per the error message, I checked /usr/bin/xml2-config:
> > bash# /usr/bin/xml2-config --prefix
> > /usr
> > bash# /usr/bin/xml2-config --libs
> > -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm
> > bash# /usr/bin/xml2-config --libs
> > -I/usr/include/libxml2
> > bash# /usr/bin/xml2-config --version
> > 2.4.22
> > This all seems to be consistent with how libxml2 is installed.
> > Then I checked config.log, and searched for "error"
> > I found 2 errors:
> > In config.log:
> > conftest.c:2: parse error before 'me'
> > configure :2263: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > #ifndef __cplusplus
> >   choke me
> > #endif
> > In config.log:
> > configure:9373: `not' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > configure:9373: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > configure:9373: for each function it appears in.)
> > configure:9373: parse error before `big'
> > configure:9385: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > #line 9359 "configure"
> > #include "confdefs.h"
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/param.h>
> > Next, I searched config.log for libxml2 and looked for anything that 
> > seemed like a failure:
> > In config.log:
> > configure:7727: checking for xml2-config
> > configure:7744: found /usr/bin/xml2-config
> > configure:7756: result: /usr/bin/xml2-config
> > configure:7764: checking for libxml - version >= 2.3.8
> > configure:7867: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 
> > -I/usr/include/libxml2   conftest.c -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm  >&5
> > configure:7792: xmlversion.h: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > configure:7870: $? = 1
> > configure: program exited with status 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > #line 7788 "configure"
> > #include "confdefs.h"
> > In config.log:
> > configure:7932: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include/libxml2   conftest.c
> > -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm >&5
> > configure:7913: xmlversion.h: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > configure:7935: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > #line 7911 "configure"
> > #include "confdefs.h"
> > Help, anyone
> > TIA!