Re: Hints for SuSE9.3Pro installation of XML contrib tools?

"Bath, David" <bathdt(at)challengelogistics(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I'd be very interested if someone has created a source rpm for the
> XML stuff (and any requirements not supplied on SuSE 9.3 Pro DVD)

The xml stuff isn't included in most RPMs because "make -C contrib all"
does not build it by default, which is because there's no support in the
main configure script for seeing whether libxml is available.

It happens that I just fixed the Fedora RPMs to build contrib/xml2:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167492

I don't suppose I can talk you into switching distros ;-), but you could
probably pull down the Fedora SRPM, do a quick rpmbuild --rebuild, and
be good to go. See
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/

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