Posted by Peter van Schie on 11/23/05 17:23

John MacLeod wrote:
> I'm trying to install a local copy of php5 and not having much luck. I want
> LIBXML and IMAP support. When I go to configure php (no matter what options
> I use) I end up with the error message...
>
> <start quote>
> Configuring extensions
> checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
> checking libxml2 install dir... /usr/home/MYACCOUNT/libxml
> configure: error: libxml2 version 2.5.10 or greater required.
> <end quote>
>
> I want LIBXML support so I downloaded and tried to install it...I get as far
> as "nice make install" when I get the following error message...
>

I don't have experience building LIBXML, but did you run the configure
script before trying to make it?
Usually configure scripts also allow you to specify an install prefix.

HTH.
Peter.

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