[postgis-users] missing libxml2.la file when compiling PostGIS 2.1.1 from Source on Ubuntu 12.04

[Paolo Corti]

Hello Mike

>
> You should have e.g. /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.la from libxml2-dev as
> shown here
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libxml2-dev/filelist
> so maybe try:
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxml2-dev
>

No way, the libxml2-dev version in my system does not have that file.
It looks like I am using a different and newer version from that one:

$ dpkg -s libxml2-dev
Package: libxml2-dev
Status: install ok installed
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 2382
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Source: libxml2
Version: 2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.2~precise1
Depends: libxml2 (= 2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.2~precise1)
Description: Development files for the GNOME XML library
 XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language.
 A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in
 a certain class of documents (eg HTML). XML lets you define your
 own customized markup languages for many classes of document. It
 can do this because it's written in SGML, the international standard
 metalanguage for markup languages.

My best guess is that you are using the 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.6
version (the one for which you provided the url), and on my system for
some reasons I have a newer version.
Did you install updates? Could you provide me your sources.list?

thanks a lot
p

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