J. Patrick Narkinsky <patrick <at> narkinsky.com> writes:

I had a similar error a couple of weeks ago. What I ended up doing was rebuilding lxml with the following command:

python setup.py --static-deps --libxml2-version=2.7.8 --libxslt-version=1.1.21

I may have misremembered the "version" options, but they should be in setupinfo.py somewhere.

Hope this helps,

Patrick

Thanks for the suggestion. It didnt work- the build failed. I got this error message: config.status: error: could not create Makefile Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 226, in <module> **setup_extra_options() File "setup.py", line 139, in setup_extra_options STATIC_CFLAGS, STATIC_BINARIES) File "/share/HDA_DATA/src/pyliball/lxml-3.0.1/setupinfo.py", line 57, in ext_modules multicore=OPTION_MULTICORE) File "/share/HDA_DATA/src/pyliball/lxml-3.0.1/buildlibxml.py", line 327, in build_libxml2xslt cmmi(configure_cmd, libiconv_dir, multicore, **call_setup) File "/share/HDA_DATA/src/pyliball/lxml-3.0.1/buildlibxml.py", line 257, in cmmi call_subprocess(configure_cmd, cwd=build_dir, **call_setup) File "/share/HDA_DATA/src/pyliball/lxml-3.0.1/buildlibxml.py", line 249, in call_subprocess raise Exception('Command "%s" returned code %s' % (cmd_desc, returncode)) Exception: Command "./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-shared - -prefix=/share/HDA_DATA/src/pyliball/lxml-3.0.1/build/tmp/libxml2" returned code 256 Any ideas on what to do next?

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:

Could you provide the context before this line please?

Maybe your hard drive just filled up or something.

Stefan

Ok. Here's a link to the log i copied to a text file: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D7596452_754_934708328 It was too long to be directly pasted here. Thanks!

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:

It's that long because it's full of errors. *wink*

Something's wrong with your build environment here, even just the "configure" script doesn't work. Can you try to build libxml2 separately to see if that works at all?

That being said, Debian has pre-built packages of lxml also for ARM, so it can't be a problem in general.

http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python-lxml

Stefan

Lol. I error-prone. Unfortunately, i dont use Debian. I have a QNAP TS-112 NAS. I also have libxml2 installed: [/src/pyliball] # ipkg info libxml2 Package: libxml2 Version: 2.7.8-1 Depends: zlib (>=1.2.5) Status: install user installed Section: libs Architecture: arm maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com> MD5Sum: 5f944cada8ee39362bae6df119f4d681 Size: 913110 Filename: libxml2_2.7.8-1_arm.ipk Source: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz Description: Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. This __xmlStructuredErrorContext undefined symbol error i get, is there no work around for this? Is it really required? Can i have it patched or something? What can i do? I'm completely stuck. The app I'm trying to install on my system runs "from lxml import etree" which causes this error.

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:

To build lxml against it, you do not only need the library package itself (i.e. libxml2) but also the development package, i.e. something like libxml2-dev or libxml2-devel. Likewise for libxslt.

Stefan

Thanks alot Stefan for making it all clear to me. I found this (ftp) site where i can get the development packages. ftp://ftp.xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ I'm using an ARM system, which one will be suitable to install on my system?

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:

Are you building this on ARM or are you cross compiling? If the latter, please make sure you use the same version of libxml2 and libxslt on both sides.

Stefan

I'm building it on an ARM system.