frugalprogrammer, I would like to thank you very much for your help
but… I’m lost.
Here is the content of the extconf.rb file. I have inspected it but I
don’t see anything that would help. Maybe would you give me some advice
from looking at the file contents?
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require ‘mkmf’
if defined?(CFLAGS)
if CFLAGS.index(CONFIG[‘CCDLFLAGS’])
$CFLAGS = CFLAGS
else
$CFLAGS = CFLAGS + ’ ’ + CONFIG[‘CCDLFLAGS’]
end
else
$CFLAGS = CONFIG[‘CFLAGS’]
end
$LDFLAGS = CONFIG[‘LDFLAGS’]
$LIBPATH.push(Config::CONFIG[‘libdir’])
def crash(str)
printf(" extconf failure: %s\n", str)
exit 1
end
dir_config(‘iconv’)
dir_config(‘xml2’)
dir_config(‘zlib’)
have_library(‘socket’,‘socket’)
have_library(‘nsl’,‘gethostbyname’)
unless have_library(‘m’, ‘atan’)
crash(‘need libm’)
end
unless have_library(‘z’, ‘inflate’)
crash(‘need zlib’)
else
$defs.push(’-DHAVE_ZLIB_H’)
end
unless have_library(‘iconv’,‘iconv_open’) or
have_library(‘c’,‘iconv_open’) or
have_library(‘recode’,‘iconv_open’)
crash(<<EOL)
need libiconv.
Install the libiconv or try passing one of the following options
to extconf.rb:
--with-iconv-dir=/path/to/iconv
--with-iconv-lib=/path/to/iconv/lib
--with-iconv-include=/path/to/iconv/include
EOL
end
unless have_library(‘xml2’, ‘xmlParseDoc’)
crash(<<EOL)
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
EOL
end
unless have_library(‘xml2’, ‘xmlDocFormatDump’)
crash(‘Your version of libxml2 is too old. Please upgrade.’)
end
unless have_func(‘docbCreateFileParserCtxt’)
crash(‘Need docbCreateFileParserCtxt’)
end
$LDFLAGS << ’ ’ + xslt-config --libs
.chomp
$LDFLAGS << ’ ’ + xml2-config --libs
.chomp
$CFLAGS << ’ ’ + xslt-config --cflags
.chomp
$CFLAGS << ’ ’ + xml2-config --cflags
.chomp
$CFLAGS = '-g -Wall ’ + $CFLAGS
create_header()
create_makefile(‘xml/libxml’)