On 07/20/2011 02:39 AM, Kaushik BV wrote:
But somehow it fails in `Solaris` with the following error
checking if libxml2 is present... ./configure: line 11586: syntax error
near unexpected token `LIBXML2,'
./configure: line 11586: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBXML2, libxml-2.0>=
2.6.19,'
That means that your aclocal.m4 (either hand-written, or as generated by
'aclocal' from automake) file did not include enough instructions to
have a definition of the macro PKG_CHECK_MODULES. Is your project using
automake? If so, it means that you were probably relying on automake's
search path of installed public .m4 files on one machine where the
pkg-config package had been installed, but on your Solaris machine,
automake is not set up to find that external macro by default.
Relying on external .m4 macros when rerunning aclocal (or autoreconf) is
always dangerous - it means you are dependent on what else is already
installed on your machine. Better is to copy the pkg-config .m4 file
that defined PKG_CHECK_MODULES into your project, so that the macro is
available for all people who autoreconf your package, even in cases like
your Solaris setup where pkg-config has not already been installed in
such a way that its public .m4 files are visible to automake.
Googled for a solution, most of them complain of `pkg-config` not being
installed. But in my test machine its actually installed, checked it by
executing the following command.
bash-3.00# pkg-config libxml-2.0 --modversion
2.6.23
That says that the pkg-config binary is installed, but doesn't say
whether the public .m4 files provided by the pkg-config package are
located somewhere that automake will find them by default.
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