thanks for catching that bug.

I just checked in the fix.

Roman Chyla wrote on 11/9/04 3:24 AM:

> hello,
> 
> think that there is a bug in buildswishe.pl, function swishe
> 
> I guess that
>          $zlibdir ||= $swishdir;
> 	$libxml2dir ||= $swishdir;
> should be
> 
>          $zlibdir ||= $installdir;
> 	$libxml2dir ||= $installdir;
> 
> when I fixed this, swish-e was built with libxml2 and zlib
> 
> 
> here is buildswishe.log, xml2-config was found
> 
> 
> checking for xml2-config... /var/home/knihovnik/tmp/test/bin/xml2-config
> checking for libxml libraries >= 2.4.3... found version 2.6.10
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> checking for gzread in -lz... yes
> 
> 
> 
> in the previous case, $zlibdir resolved to "/tmp/swish-e-2.4.2" (the 
> path to unpacked source) but correct was "/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/test" 
> , Libraries have been installed in:
>     /var/home/knihovnik/tmp/test/lib
> 
> 
> if the fix is correct, some piece of code from swishe function is also 
> not needed
> 
>          my $dir = get_src( 'swishe' );
> 
> 
> so, again many thanks to Peter Karman for buildswishe.pl, swish-e now 
> has libxml2 and zlib installed (i tried it) and I think this script is 
> very, very useful - it can ease life of many people
> 
> I am going to tar up swish-e and move it from Debian to Slackware to 
> test whether we can build binaries at home and upload them to ISP
> 
> roman
> 
> 
> Peter Karman wrote:
> 
>>Roman Chyla wrote on 11/8/04 9:36 AM:
>>
>>
>>
>>>this might be wrong but it seemed to me, that buildswishe.pl did not set 
>>>path for xml2-config and configure missed it during compilation,
>>>I tried to set PATH variable beforehand (putting path-to xml2-config in 
>>>it) but result was the same
>>
>>
>>>#this is swish-e
>>>configuring with:
>>>/configure --prefix=/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/pokus3 
>>>--with-zlib=/tmp/swish-e-2.4.2 --with-libxml2=/tmp/swish-e-2.4.2 
>>>--disable-shared LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath 
>>>-Wl,/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/pokus3/lib:/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/pokus3:. 
>>>-L/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/pokus3/lib:/var/home/knihovnik/tmp/pokus3:.' 
>>>CPPFLAGS='-I/tmp/swish-e-2.4.2/include -I/tmp/swish-e-2.4.2/include' 
>>>1>>/tmp/buildswishe.log 
>>
>>
>>
>>check the contents of the output log:
>>
>>/tmp/buildswishe.log
>>
>>and look for whether the configure command found libxml2 or not. it 
>>should look something like:
>>
>>checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
>>checking for libxml libraries >= 2.4.3... found version 2.6.7
>>
>>
>>of course, your version will be different, but the lines should indicate 
>>whether libxml2 library was found or not.
>>
>>if it was, and the resulting binary doesn't recognize HTML2, something 
>>else is awry...
>>

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