newbie question concerning ./configure

Peter Lesterhuis peterlesterhuis at tiscali.nl
Thu Jan 6 19:54:41 UTC 2005


Hi,
I am trying to get my dvd-writer burn movies. I am following guidelines 
from linuxworld.com 
(http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;302870882;fp;2;fpid;37).
I downloaded "dvdauthor" from sourceforge.net and untared. After the 
./configure command many checkings are passing succesfully and then the 
process comes to a stop displaying the next lines:

checking for xml2-config... no
checking for libxml - version >= 2.6.0... no
*** The xml2-config script installed by LIBXML could not be found
*** If libxml was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the XML2_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to xml2-config.
configure: error: You must have libxml2 >= 2.6.0 installed

Searching for for libxml2 gave me this output:

[peter at cello dvdauthor-0.6.10]$ locate libxml2
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.la
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.a
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.16
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/ChangeLog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/README
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader2.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/xpathext.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/pushSAXhtml.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/libxml2class.txt
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/attribs.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/serialize.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/cutnpaste.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/thread2.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/xpath.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/ChangeLog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/pushSAX.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/indexes.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/index.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/tst.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/python.html
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/inbuf.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/dtdvalid.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/relaxng.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/README
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/sync.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/schema.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/readererr.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader5.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/tstxpath.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader4.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/tstLastError.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader6.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/regexp.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/ctxterror.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader7.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/apibuild.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/outbuf.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/build.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/push.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/tstURI.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/walker.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader8.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/resolver.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/xpathret.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/error.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/reader3.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16/validate.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.6.16
[peter at cello dvdauthor-0.6.10]$

Now i don't know what to do next. Should i use $ ./configure 
--prefix=/usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.6.16

I guess not. The man-page of configure doesn help me any further. Trying 
to learn i hope to get some hints.
I run fc3.
Any help would be appreciated.
Peter.






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