[Libvir] Configure error - Could not find libxml2 anywhere

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:32:51AM -0500, Karthik V wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm new to libvirt, and am having trouble running configure script.
> This is the error -
> 
> checking for library containing xs_read... -lxenstore
> checking libxml2   no  ... checking for libxml2 libraries >= 2.5.0...
> checking libxml2   xml2-config  ... configure: error: Could not find
> libxml2 anywhere (see config.log for details).
> 
> I've verified that I have libxml2 installed -
> 
> debian:~/libvirt-0.1.8# dpkg -l | grep libxml
> ii  libxml2        2.6.16-7       GNOME XML library

This is only the runtime library - you need the development header files
and libraries installed to be able to compile against it.ie libxml2-dev 

Regards,
Dan.
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