Re: Build error for ROOT5.08 on PowerPC/SuSe SLES 9.0 platform

Hi Charlie,

   I've only access to ppc64 under FC4 on my Mac G5 where it builds nicely. There are two options:

• install your self a compatible libxml2, normally the latest libxml2 is ok (you don't happen to build for ppc64 do you?)
• use the --disable-xml which will skip the building of the xml interface plugin

Cheers, Fons.

Charlie Maguire wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I experienced an error concerning the libxml2.so library when
> I attempted to build ROOT5.08/00 from source on a
> PowerPC/SuSe SLES 9.0 platform (2.2 GHz JS20 IBM CPU).
> Previously I was successful in building ROOT5.08/00
> from the same source tar file on two Intel CPU platforms,
> one running Scientific Linux and the other WhiteBox Linux
> clones of RH3.
>
> There is a libxml2.so library, softlinked to libxml2.so.2.6.7,
> on the PowerPC system but the build command reports an error
>
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../powerpc-suse-linux/bin/ld:
>
> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libxml2.so when searching for -lxml2
>
> and eventually reports that it cannot find libxml2.so .
>
> On the two Intel platforms where I was successful in building ROOT
> the libxml2 libraries are slightly older: libxml2.so.2.5.10
> and libxml2.so.2.4.25 .
>
> Prior to the make command on the PowerPC, I ran a configure command without
> any options specified. The build error occurred after about
> 95% of the compilations has succeeded.
>
> The PowerPC platform is a new addition to the University's
> large computer farm to which our group has been give access.
>
> Later I plan to build the CERNLIBs on this platform, in case
> anyone has related experience in that effort.
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
>

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