From: mhale@... (Michael Hale) Date: 2002-03-30T09:33:28+09:00 Subject: Re: trouble compiling xmlparser TAKAHASHI Masayoshi wrote in message news:<20020326012314C.maki@rubycolor.org>... > mhale@rolemodelsoft.com (Michael Hale) wrote: > > I am trying to get xmlparser setup on my linux box. I installed > > expat, then downloaded the source for xmlparser and ran the following > > commands, but after running make I get the following error and I am > > unable to continue. Any suggestions? > > > > cd xmlparser > > ruby extconf.rb --with-xmlparse-lib=/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so > > make > > Did you have an error when execute extconf.rb? > With --with-xmlparse-lib option, you should specify > the location (path) of files, not files themselves. > > cd xmlparser > ruby extconf.rb --with-xmlparse-lib=/usr/local/lib \ > --with-xmlparse-include=/usr/local/include > make > > > > HTH, > > TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi E-mail: maki@rubycolor.org Thanks for your suggestions. I did not get messages that kept the makefile from being created. I tried only specifying the path instead of the file unfortunatley it still dosen't work.