Answering to myself: Of course I must install the "*-devel" packages
Seb ________________________________ From: Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flae...@4js.com> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 10:36 AM To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Build fails on RHEL 8.8 about libxml2 version EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize the sender. Hello, Trying to build PostgreSQL 15 and 16 on RHEL 8.8: [comp@havok postgresql-15.1]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa) [comp@havok postgresql-15.1]$ uname -a Linux havok.strasbourg.4js.com 4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 31 10:29:22 EDT 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I got an error about libxml2 invalid version. .... checking for inflate in -lz... yes checking for xmlSaveToBuffer in -lxml2... no configure: error: library 'xml2' (version >= 2.6.23) is required for XML support But I see a 2.9.7: [comp@havok postgresql-15.1]$ find /lib64/ -name "libxml2*" /lib64/libxml2.so.2 /lib64/libxml2.so.2.9.7 /lib64/girepository-1.0/libxml2-2.0.typelib /lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/libxml2.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc /lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/libxml2.cpython-36.pyc /lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libxml2.py /lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.so What am I missing here? Seb
