GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 792181
Incorrect build instructions in README
Last modified: 2019-09-13 15:55:06 UTC
The libxml2 main README file says: To build on an Unixised setup: ./configure ; make ; make install These instructions do not work on a CentOS 7.3 system. I wasted a lot of time searching for a solution on the Internet, and only found the solution on http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html _after_ I began redacting this bug report. The libxml2 README file should be changed to: To build on an Unixised setup: ./configure ; make ; make install If the ./configure file does not exist, run ./autogen.sh instead.
Fixed here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/fa5e8ca66f226107a87d6c39b3e7820ba3dcba6b Note that you only have to generate the autoconf scripts when building from a Git checkout. The official tarballs contain all necessary build scripts.