[lxml-dev] Building lxml 2.0.5 on RHEL/CentOS 4

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> Has anyone built lxml 2.0.5 on RHEL 4 or CentOS 4?  When I submit it
> to the Fedora/EPEL buildsystem I get the following error:
> 
> libxml/schematron.h: No such file or directory
> 
> I don't have direct access to a RHEL/CentOS 4 box so I can't do much
> more debugging until I do get one set up.  libxml2 is at version
> 2.6.16 in RHEL/CentOS 4.

That's too old anyway. lxml > 1.3.x requires libxml2 2.6.21 (although I think
2.0.x still states it works with 2.6.20, which the above error proves wrong...)

Two choices: stay with lxml 1.3 or build your own libxml2 as well.

Stefan