From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-02-26T08:04:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] LibXML-Ruby 0.3.6


On Feb 23, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:
> LibXML-Ruby 0.3.6 is now available from Rubyforge

I am having some trouble with building.

1) I have two libiconvs installed, one supplied with my OS in
    /usr and another in /opt/local. Using
    --with-iconv-dir=/opt/local fails to locate libiconv, but
    --with-iconv-dir=/usr works. I made a change to extconf.rb:

$ diff libxml-ruby-0.3.6.orig/ext/xml/extconf.rb libxml-ruby-0.3.6/ 
ext/xml/extconf.rb
45,46c45,49
< unless have_library('iconv','iconv_open') or have_library 
('c','iconv_open') or
<   have_library('recode','iconv_open')
---
 >
 > unless have_library('iconv') or
 >        have_library('iconv','iconv_open') or
 >        have_library('c','iconv_open') or
 >        have_library('recode','iconv_open')

    and --with-iconv-dir=/opt/local worked.

2) You call two shell commands, xml2-config and xslt-config. I
    have two versions of libxml2 and libxslt installed, so this
    command is dependent on the correct command being in my PATH
    before the other one. I am not sure what to do about this
    problem.

-- Daniel