libxml2-2.12.5

Installation of libxml2

Install libxml2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc       \
            --disable-static        \
            --with-history          \
            --with-icu              \
            PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.12.5 &&
make

If you downloaded the test suite, issue the following command:

tar xf ../xmlts20130923.tar.gz

To test the results, issue: make check > check.log. This command will print several lines of error messages like “Failed to parse xstc/...” because some test files are missing and these messages can be safely ignored. A summary of the results can be obtained with grep -E '^Total|expected|Ran' check.log. If Valgrind-3.22.0 is installed and you want to check for memory leaks, replace check with check-valgrind.

Note

The tests use http://localhost/ to test parsing of external entities. If the machine where you run the tests serves as a web site, the tests may hang, depending on the content of the file served. It is therefore recommended to shut down the server during the tests, as the root user:

/etc/init.d/httpd stop

Now, as the root user:

make install

Finally, prevent some packages from unnecessarily linking to ICU using the following commands as the root user:

rm -vf /usr/lib/libxml2.la &&
sed '/libs=/s/xml2.*/xml2"/' -i /usr/bin/xml2-config