Thanks for the help. I just grabbed the 0.8.5 release tarball from here http://mirror.lagoon.nc/pub/gnu/pspp/
I do indeed have xmllint installed on this system ... /usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp> locate xmllint /usr/bin/xmllint /usr/share/doc/libxml2-devel-2.6.26/xmllint.html /usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz /usr/share/vim/vim70/compiler/xmllint.vim /usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp> xmllint --version xmllint: using libxml version 20626 compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N Catalog XPath XPointer XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas Schematron Modules Debug r...@dbm1.dbm /usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp> But it looks like I don't have that xpath option as the libxml2 centos5 version is a bit old now. /usr/tcg/dialer-utils/pspp/pspp-0.8.5> xmllint --xpath Unknown option --xpath I have been running 0.7.9 as it fixed a specific bug that I found at the time. Thanks again, Daniel On 20 August 2015 at 06:42, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:04:07PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:34:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:57:04AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: >> > You need to install the xmllint program. I have no idea where that is >> > on Cento - ask a Cento expert. >> >> I guess that we should probably document that xmllint is necessary, and >> perhaps modify configure.ac to report an error if it is missing. >> >> I don't understand what the xmllint invocations are doing, though. >> >> They are merely checking that the xml is valid if I recall correctly. > > OK. I guess that the correct thing to do, then, would be to skip the > tests if xmllint is not available? > >> What interests me however, is why they are getting called at all. I >> thought xmllint was only necessary when bootstrapping - it should not >> be required when building from the released tarball if I recall >> correctly. Unless of course Daniel modified something in the >> documentation sources. > > Daniel--did you build from a release tarball or from some other source? > > Thanks, > > Ben. -- Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
