Hi all, I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this:
# emerge expat # emerge python # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/ # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild # cd - This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the package is still not compiling because of a missing .so file, see this: # cd /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/ # ln -sf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so . If I don't do this a python script in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1/work/libxml2-2.8.0/python-2.7/ called generate.py (you have to call this python2.7 ./generate.py) will fail. Hope this saves someones endless hours. Regards, Roland PS: There are a lot warnings compiling libxml2, you may want to fix them. I have used this to build libxml2: (temporary) USE="-ipv6 readline -debug -doc -examples -icu lzma python -static-libs -test"
