I’m trying to do a simple gem install so I can validate some XML files
for a project, and the gem install fails as follows on my CentOS system:
[root@miller ~]# uname -a
Linux miller 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16 EST 2007 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@miller ~]# gem install libxml-ruby
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing libxml-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install libxml-ruby
checking for socket() in -lsocket… no
checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl… yes
checking for atan() in -lm… no
checking for atan() in -lm… yes
checking for inflate() in -lz… yes
checking for iconv_open() in -liconv… no
checking for libiconv_open() in -liconv… no
checking for libiconv_open() in -llibiconv… no
checking for iconv_open() in -llibiconv… no
checking for iconv_open() in -lc… yes
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2… no
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -llibxml2… no
checking for /opt/lib() in -lxml2… no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–without-opt-dir
–with-opt-include
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog
–without-make-prog
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=/usr/bin/ruby
–with-iconv-dir
–without-iconv-dir
–with-iconv-include
–without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include
–with-iconv-lib
–without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib
–with-xml2-dir
–without-xml2-dir
–with-xml2-include
–without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include
–with-xml2-lib
–without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib
–with-zlib-dir
–without-zlib-dir
–with-zlib-include
–without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
–with-zlib-lib
–without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
–with-socketlib
–without-socketlib
–with-nsllib
–without-nsllib
–with-mlib
–without-mlib
–with-mlib
–without-mlib
–with-zlib
–without-zlib
–with-iconvlib
–without-iconvlib
–with-iconvlib
–without-iconvlib
–with-libiconvlib
–without-libiconvlib
–with-libiconvlib
–without-libiconvlib
–with-clib
–without-clib
–with-xml2lib
–without-xml2lib
–with-libxml2lib
–without-libxml2lib
–with-xml2lib
–without-xml2lib
extconf failure: need libxml2.
Install the library or try one of the following options to
extconf.rb:
--with-xml2-dir=/path/to/libxml2
--with-xml2-lib=/path/to/libxml2/lib
--with-xml2-include=/path/to/libxml2/include
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.4/ext/libxml/gem_make.out
—snip—
The only so I seem to have is:
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.26
Presumably there should be a symbolic link or something, but whatever is
missing,…If I go ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.26 /usr/lib/libxml2.so,
then…
Nope, it fails the same way…
I also tried:
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.4/ext/libxml/gem_make.out
[root@miller ~]# gem install --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib libxml-ruby
ERROR: While executing gem … (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib
[root@miller ~]# gem install libxml-ruby --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib
ERROR: While executing gem … (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib
[root@miller ~]# gem --with-xml2-dir=/usr/libinstall libxml-ruby
ERROR: Invalid option: --with-xml2-dir=/usr/libinstall. See ‘gem
–help’.
[root@miller ~]# gem --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib install libxml-ruby
ERROR: Invalid option: --with-xml2-dir=/usr/lib. See ‘gem --help’.
[root@miller ~]#
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