BUG #12275: configure incorrectly tests libxml2 version - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From greg.davidson@gmail.com
Subject BUG #12275: configure incorrectly tests libxml2 version
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Msg-id 20141218202423.1905.88366@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      12275
Logged by:          Greg Davidson
Email address:      greg.davidson@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.4.0
Operating system:   mint 17.1
Description:

I had to comment out the libxml2 version check to get 9.4.0 to build.
Perhaps it's because of the suffix on the version number?
$ ./configure --with-libxml --with-libxslt --enable-debug --enable-cassert
\
--with-tcl --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.6 --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-9.4.0
...
checking for xmlSaveToBuffer in -lxml2... no
configure: error: library 'xml2' (version >= 2.6.23) is required for XML
support

$ dpkg-query -l '*xml2*'
||/ Name               Version                 Arch   Description
+++-==================-=======================-======-===========================================
ii  libxml2:amd64      2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4  amd64  GNOME XML library
ii  libxml2:i386       2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4  i386   GNOME XML library
ii  libxml2-dev:amd64  2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4  amd64  Development files for
the GNOME XML library
ii  libxml2-doc        2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4  all    Documentation for the
GNOME XML library
ii  libxml2-utils      2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4  amd64  XML utilities

P.S. I hope that the appearance of line clipping I'm seeing above is an
illusion.  Perhaps the bug report textentry widget should have room for 80
character wide pastes from terminals?

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