RE: Problem getting dia installed

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> MMark [mailto:mmark@psysolutions.com] wrote:
> 
> > You will need to install the devel package from the same 
> place you installed
> > this package (Ximian??). 
> 
> did this today, still not working.
> 
> > RH7.2 comes with libxml-1.8.14-2 and libxml-devel-1.8.14-2 
> which are too
> > old. If you downloaded libxml-1.8.15-ximian.2, try downloading the
> > libxml-devel-1.8.15-ximian.2 from
> > http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml-devel
> > 
> > Or, you can use libxml2 which you will need both the package and the
> > development package. The general rule is if you require a 
> package to run an
> > application then you will need the development package to 
> compile it.
> > 
> i also have libxml2 and the devel. package. the make is still crashing
> in the same place saying that /usr/lib/libxml.so does not exist. which
> it does.
> 
> any other suggestions?

When you say that /usr/lib/libxml.so exists, it is usually only a link to
another file. Can you ensure that the referenced file exists i.e.

	ls -l /usr/lib/libxml.so
this will show you the name of the file being referenced. Do an ls -l of the
file being referenced and you'll see whether it does exist.
If you do a 
	strings /usr/lib/libxml.so | tail
you should see 10 lines of text. If this does exist that this is a weird
problem. Can you try reinstalling the libxml (1 or 2, whichever you are
going to use) and its corresponding development package (i.e. force an
install using rpm).

If you are likely to want to use dia for anything serious, you may wish to
use the latest version available in CVS or in a snapshot (easy for those
without CVS access). See the latest Changelog posting for the location and
please also read recent posts regarding compiling CVS and read the NEWS,
INSTALL and ChangeLog files! Mind you, this may all just cause more problems
than it solves.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Rob.