[jadmin] jabberd & Fedora Core 6 Install woes & solutions

[Sam Brown]

I just finished compiling & installing jabberd 1.6.0 under Fedora Core
6. I ran into a few obstacles, and thought I'd share the solutions with
the list.

 

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Problem 1: The configure script needs pth.h, which is not installed with
the developer packages.

 

Solution 1: "yum install pth-devel"

 

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Problem 2: The configure script needs a version of expat.h that includes
XML_ParserCreate. Fedora Core 6, (after running the obligatory
post-install "yum update") has version 1.95.8. XML_ParserCreate isn't in
this version.

 

Solution 2: You could step back to a version of expat that supports
XML_ParserCreate. Or, you could charge ahead to the prerelease version
(2.0.1) that starts supporting it again. Here's the command sequence I
used:

 

(First, make a working directory to do your download to and be there.)

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at expat.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/expat login

(Password blank)

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at expat.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/expat co
expat

cd expat

./buildconf.sh

./configure

make

make install

cd /usr/local/lib

cp --backup ./l* /usr/lib

cd ../../local/include/

cp --backup ./l* /usr/include

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