Thread: Weird error, can't figure it out.

i trying ./configure epiar game downloaded source to. can't seem stop getting error @ bottom of ./configure script, , doesn't make sense because have libxml2 installed, i've tried --reinstall libxmls on system no avail. hell wrong this? why doesn't see obvious library have?

brotha out?

code:

~/downloads/epiar-0.4.2$ tar -xvzf libxml2-sources-2.6.29.tar.gz tar (child): libxml2-sources-2.6.29.tar.gz: cannot open: no such file or directory tar (child): error not recoverable: exiting tar: child returned status 2 tar: error not recoverable: exiting jarod@jarod-gt5670:~/downloads/epiar-0.4.2$ ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking bsd-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment sane... yes checking thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking gawk... no checking mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(make)... yes checking style of include used make... gnu checking gcc... gcc checking whether c compiler works... yes checking c compiler default output file name... a.out checking suffix of executables...  checking whether cross compiling... no checking suffix of object files... o checking whether using gnu c compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking gcc option accept iso c89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how run c preprocessor... gcc -e checking g++... g++ checking whether using gnu c++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether using gnu c compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking gcc option accept iso c89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking ranlib... ranlib checking xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config checking libxml - version >= 2.4.0... no *** not run libxml test program, checking why... *** test program failed compile or link. see file config.log *** exact error occured. means libxml incorrectly installed *** or have moved libxml since installed. in latter case, *** may want edit xml2-config script: /usr/bin/xml2-config configure: error: cannot find xml2: xml2-config in path? jarod@jarod-gt5670:~/downloads/epiar-0.4.2$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev reading package lists... done building dependency tree        reading state information... done build-essential newest version. libxml2-dev newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 remove , 6 not upgraded.

actually figured out above error, ran 1 right after it. code below.

appreciated.

wierd thing have sdl 1.2.14 more improved version 1.2.10 , doesn't seem have it.

code:

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking bsd-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment sane... yes checking thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking gawk... no checking mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(make)... yes checking style of include used make... gnu checking gcc... gcc checking whether c compiler works... yes checking c compiler default output file name... a.out checking suffix of executables...  checking whether cross compiling... no checking suffix of object files... o checking whether using gnu c compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking gcc option accept iso c89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how run c preprocessor... gcc -e checking g++... g++ checking whether using gnu c++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether using gnu c compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking gcc option accept iso c89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking ranlib... ranlib checking pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config @ least version 0.9.0... yes checking ftgl... yes checking libxml2... yes checking sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config checking sdl - version >= 1.2.10... no *** not run sdl test program, checking why... *** test program failed compile or link. see file config.log *** exact error occured. means sdl incorrectly installed *** or have moved sdl since installed. in latter case, *** may want edit sdl-config script: /usr/bin/sdl-config configure: error: *** sdl version 1.2.10 not found!

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