I a m not sure where I should report that - it looks like a quite generic bug.
I tried to install XML::LibXML on a quite new system - it failed
because of no libxml2 - but I installed it and it was still failing
with the same error.
Then I run perl Makefile.PL DEBUG=1 and voila:
...
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib:/lib" cc -shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib
-fstack-protector Conftest.o -o blib/arch/auto/Conftest/Conftest.so
\
-lxml2 -lz \
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Conftest/Conftest.so] Błąd 1
system call to 'make test 'OTHERLDFLAGS='' failed at Makefile.PL line 470.
no
libxml2 not found
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
underlinings mine
After installing sudo apt-get install libzip-dev - all worked OK.
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for x86_64-linux
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Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/
