libxml2 source: configure file missing

logicalfuzz · 11-29-2005, 12:00 PM

I D/L-ed libxml2-2.6.22. The README file says to follow configure-make-make install procedure to have libxml2 installed. But configure file itself is missing from the source tarball. I searched the CVS reps. There also no configure file is present. Now how on earth do i get around this? I am not a programmer :-/ ....so creating a configure script is probably outside my reach.

bathory · 11-30-2005, 05:18 AM

You can d/l the source from here if you want to compile it yourself.

logicalfuzz · 11-30-2005, 07:16 AM

Thats exactly the same version and same site i got it from.

bathory · 11-30-2005, 07:28 AM

I redownloaded it just now and extracted. As you can see everyhing is OK

Quote:

ls -l libxml2-2.6.22/configure
-rwxrwxr-x 1 50138 69 981026 Sep 13 00:17 libxml2-2.6.22/configure*

So, did you use the commands:

Code:

tar zxvf libxml2-2.6.22.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.6.22
./configure

logicalfuzz · 11-30-2005, 11:46 AM

thanks for that link bathory. And forgive my ignorance... i probably downloaded the previous tarball from the page meant fro developers (I surely dint have that configure script in that tarrball)