Gnucash 1.8.1 configure fails: with Could not link sample xml program

[Matthew Vanecek]

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On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Klaus Binder wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am fairly new to linux and have absolutely no prgramming skills. But I am 
> trying my best to get 1.8.1 working.
> 
> I am running Suse 8.1
> Gnucash 1.6.4 is working fine.
> 
> I have had many error so far because of missing libraries and dependencies. 
> But now i am stuck and have not idea what to look for.
> 
> Any hints are welcome.
> 

If you look at the botom of your configure output, you should get a pretty 
good hint.  It tells you it can't find the function in the specified 
library.  What you would want to do is check that you have the required 
library installed.  In this case, it's looking for function xmlNewDoc in 
library libxml.so.  Whenever you see -lsomthing, it's always looking for 
libsomething.so, usually in /usr/lib.

You probably don't have the libxml-devel package installed.  You can 
verify that by typing:

rpm -qa |grep libxml-devel

at a command prompt.  

> checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... no
> configure: error: Could not link sample xml program

 

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