On torsdag 29. juli 2004, 19:52, Aubrey Hutchings wrote:
> Thanks for this advice--very helpful. It will be great in the future
> too.

Yup! I learnt this the hard way the first time I installed DBD::Pg. Got 
some really obscure errors that really put me off, but it turned out 
after much pounding-of-head-against-wall that I just needed the -dev 
package. They contain .h files as stuff like that which is needed for 
building things.

Having GNU locate around to find what you actually have installed is 
also a good thing, I have a symlink from /etc/cron.daily/updatedb 
to /usr/bin/updatedb but I don't know if that's the Debian Way.

> After some apt-get voodoo, I managed to get libxml2-dev version 
> 2.6.1 (and its dependencies) installed. (I got libxml2-dev from the
> backports...) The AxKit install through CPAN can find the
> xml2-config thing and it runs alright, but now the perl modules
> (XML::LibXSLT and XML::LibXML) this version of AxKit (1.6.2) is
> trying to install complain that this version of libxml2-dev isn't
> what they expect and warn that failures and strange stuff might
> occur.

Mmmm, if it was indeed 2.6.1 you installed, rather than 2.6.11, then I 
can understand it. Then, use the same version for everything.

If it was 2.6.11, then, I don't quite, but since 2.6.11 is newer than 
XML::LibXML, the latter was not aware of the former when it was 
released. In that case, it may not mean anything. If it works for you, 
I wouldn't worry. Perhaps some others on the list can chime in on that?

And for reference for future googlers; my original problem was in fact 
an obscure bug in libxslt <= 1.1.7 which I had actually relied upon, 
not understanding what I did was actually wrong because it worked. I 
just needed to make sure I used the default namespace for XHTML 
throughout my pipeline.

Cheers,

Kjetil
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