GNU bug report logs - #76147
android fdroid 30.0.93 requires Emacs to be compiled with libxml2

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: జిందం వాఐి
 <jindam.vani <at> disroot.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 76147-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76147: android fdroid 30.0.93 requires Emacs to be compiled
 with libxml2
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:19:40 -0800

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:35:02 +0000
>>> From: jindam.vani--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>>
>>> On 8 February 2025 19:24:17 UTC, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >I don't see why this is considered a bug.  shr.el relies on libxml2 to
>>> >parse HTML, so you get this error for a good reason.
>>>
>>> * report bug clearly states_
>>> Configured using: 'configure ..... --with-xml2=yes
>>> * i am bit confused, doesnt
>>> configured and compiled
>>> are one and same?
>>
>> The list of the features in your build, viz.:
>>
>>> Configured features:
>>> MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER SECCOMP THREADS ZLIB
>>
>> clearly says libxml2 is not compiled in.  I don't know why this
>> happened.  Did you build this Emacs yourself, or did someone else do
>> that?  If you build it, I suggest looking at config.log to find the
>> reason, perhaps the system where Emacs was built didn't have libxml2
>> installed, so the build eventually omitted it.
>>
>> Po Lu, can you tell how this could happen?
>
> Simple: configure could not locate a suitable version of libxml2 for
> cross-compilation.  Please observe the instructions in java/INSTALL to
> the letter.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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