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Extracted from the documentation:
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http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio
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1.What is the process to compile libxml ?
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As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard":
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gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
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./configure [possible options]
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At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to
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update your list of installed shared libs.
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At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning
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2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ?
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Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API
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should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you
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However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use
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libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library
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http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's
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included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't
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need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's
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now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one
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implementation of the library which source can be found here.
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http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
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ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/
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3.make tests may fail on some platforms
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Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the
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value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print
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the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation
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process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem
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$Id: INSTALL,v 1.4 2006/03/24 14:02:54 veillard Exp $