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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 08:22:07PM +0100, Paolo Corti wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> When compiling PostGIS 2.1.1 I am getting the following error on my
> Ubuntu 12.04 box (when making):
> 
> ...
> make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/gis/postgis/postgis-2.1.1/raster/loader'
> gcc -g -O2  -fPIC -DPIC  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -I../rt_core
> -I../../liblwgeom  -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include   -c
> raster2pgsql.c
> /bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2  -fPIC -DPIC  -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -I../rt_core -I../../liblwgeom
> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include   ../rt_core/librtcore.a
> raster2pgsql.o ../../liblwgeom/liblwgeom.la -L/usr/local/lib -lgdal
> -L/usr/lib -lgeos_c  -lc -lm -o raster2pgsql
> libtool: link: cannot find the library
> `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.la' or unhandled argument

...

> Effectively, the libxml2.la file is not on my computer.
> The libxml2 and libxml2-dev versions I am using is the one from ubuntu
> precise repository:
> 
> 2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.2~precise1
> 2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.2~precise1

There seem to be a reference to libxml2.la into one of the .la
files involved in the libtool call line. Start form liblwgeom.la,
it's a shell script setting some variables. Mine was created 
by libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 Debian-2.4.2-1.2ubuntu1

--strk;