Bug 484195

Summary:	upgrade to libxml2-2.7.3 breaks gnome compilation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	paolo borelli <pborelli>
Component:	libxml2	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	veillard
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Description paolo borelli 2009-02-05 10:44:14 UTC

After upgrading to libxml2-2.7.3 from the F10 updates, trying to build gnome programs started failing with the following error:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/gnome/bin/xml2po", line 35, in <module>
    import libxml2
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlPreviousElementSibling
make[2]: *** [bg/gedit.xml] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/gnome/bin/xml2po", line 35, in <module>
    import libxml2
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlPreviousElementSibling
make[2]: *** [da/gedit.xml] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paolo/svn/gnome/gedit/help'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paolo/svn/gnome/gedit'
make: *** [all] Error 2



Manually downgrading to the libxml2-2.7.2 package fixed the issue

Comment 1 paolo borelli 2009-02-05 11:08:32 UTC

ops, sorry it's my fault... I forgot jhbuild doesn't pull libxml from svn anymore so the problem was due to a mismatch among the jhbuild installed version and the libxml2-python rpm.