[BioC] installing XML in linux

On 9 Jun 2003, Douglas Bates wrote:

You will need to install the Debian package libxml-dev before you can
install the R XML package.

and note that the package is really looking for 'libxml/parser.h'. On my
machine, for example, parser.h is in /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/, so I
have LIBXML_INCDIR=/usr/include/libxml2.

Thanks for pointing out the fact that one can set LIBXML_INCDIR and it
is definitely a good thing. In this particular case, however, I hope
that the configuration should work automatically without any additional
manual settings. The configure script should be using

 xml2-config --cflags

and that should return -I/usr/include/libxml2 and libxml/parser.h is
then duly found within that directory.

If this isn't the case, I'd be happy to find out and change things.
Unfortunately, conflicts between libxml and libxml2, use of libxml/
and gnome-xml/, etc... make this a complex configuration.

-- 
Robert Burrows, PhD
New England Biometrics
rbb at nebiometrics.com

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