On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM, "Roland Häder" <r.hae...@web.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this: > > # emerge expat > # emerge python > # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/ > # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild > # cd - > > This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the package is still not > compiling because of a missing .so file, see this: > > # cd /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/ > # ln -sf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so . > > If I don't do this a python script in > /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1/work/libxml2-2.8.0/python-2.7/ > called generate.py (you have to call this python2.7 ./generate.py) will fail. > > Hope this saves someones endless hours. > > Regards, > Roland > > PS: There are a lot warnings compiling libxml2, you may want to fix them. > > I have used this to build libxml2: (temporary) > USE="-ipv6 readline -debug -doc -examples -icu lzma python -static-libs -test" >
Weird, I'm on 2.8.0-r1 and didn't have to do any hoop jumping to get there (~amd64). -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
