Question

Here is the stdout for install:

$sudo cpanm XML::LibXML
--> Working on XML::LibXML
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0014.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring XML-LibXML-2.0014 ... N/A
! Configure failed for XML-LibXML-2.0014. See /home/kahmed/.cpanm/build.log for details.

details:

Unpacking XML-LibXML-2.0014.tar.gz
Entering XML-LibXML-2.0014
Checking configure dependencies from META.yml
Checking if you have ExtUtils::MakeMaker 0 ... Yes (6.55_02)
Configuring XML-LibXML-2.0014
Running Makefile.PL
enable native perl UTF8
running xml2-config...ok (2.9.0)
Checking for ability to link against xml2...no
Checking for ability to link against libxml2...libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been found.
Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line
Or get libxml2 from
  http://xmlsoft.org/
If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel
RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are.

Also, you may try to run perl Makefile.PL with the DEBUG=1 parameter
to see the exact reason why the detection of libxml2 installation
failed or why Makefile.PL was not able to compile a test program.
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for XML-LibXML-2.0014. See /home/kahmed/.cpanm/build.log for details.

i tried installing libxml2 manually, but still getting the same issue.

also, i checked for libxml2-dev:

 sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libxml2-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 78 not upgraded.

here is the system info:

 lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
Release:    11.04
Codename:   natty

uname -a
Linux autobot 2.6.38-8-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:49:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

I think the relevant line is:

Checking for ability to link against libxml2...libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been found.

So, you’ve covered off libxml. Have you installed the appropriate zlib package? Try:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Then try installing XML::LibXML again.