libxml2-2.9.10

Installation of libxml2

Apply a patch to fix various errors:

patch -p1 -i ../libxml2-2.9.10-security_fixes-1.patch

Fix a problem generating the Python3 module with Python-3.9.0 and later:

sed -i '/if Py/{s/Py/(Py/;s/)/))/}' python/{types.c,libxml.c}

If you are going to run the tests, disable one test that causes the Python tests to terminate early with an error:

sed -i 's/test.test/#&/' python/tests/tstLastError.py

If, and only if, you are using ICU-68.2, fix a build breakage caused by that version by running the following command:

sed -i 's/ TRUE/ true/' encoding.c

Install libxml2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --with-history   \
            --with-python=/usr/bin/python3 &&
make

If you downloaded the testsuite, issue the following command:

tar xf ../xmlts20130923.tar.gz

To test the results, issue: make check > check.log. A summary of the results can be obtained with grep -E '^Total|expected' check.log. If Valgrind-3.17.0 is installed and you want to check memory leaks, replace check with check-valgrind.

Now, as the root user:

make install