From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T08:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: CentOS gem install of libxml-ruby is failing

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>> 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:
> 
> Do you have the libxml development rpm installed?
> 
> That's the first thing I'd check when these errors come up:
> 
>> checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... no
>> checking for xmlParseDoc() in -llibxml2... no
> 
Thank you.  That appears to have been what I needed.  I installed 
libxml-devel and then retried the gem and it appears to have finished 
normally, with gem check showing no problems.

xc