libxml2

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:11:36PM +0900, Reinke Bonte was heard to remark:
> How can I compile the cvs version with libxml2 instead of gnome-xml
> (libxml1)? Can I somehow tell autgen or configure? I tried to make

You'd need to make source code changes. libxml2 is not source-code
compatible with libxml1

> I saw the file xml-helper.h, that the precompiler checks the version of
> libxml. Unfortunately, I cannot uninstall libxml1, because too many
> other packages depend on it.

You can have both libxml1-dev and libxml2-dev installed at the same
time.  Things work fine (as long as you don't confuse which is
which).


--linas

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