Scenario:
Encountered the following error while installing TORQUE Portable Batch System (PBS) on your Ubuntu VM.
checking for lseek64... yes ./configure: line 17951: ac_fn_c_check_member: command not found checking for struct stat64.st_mode... yes checking if largefile compiles (looking at you, OSX)... checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking for xmlGetProp in -lxml2 -lz -llzma -lpthread -lm -ldl... no configure: error: TORQUE needs libxml2-devel in order to build
Here is the Solution:
You need to install libxml2-dev package using apt-get as shown below:
#sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Even after installing libxml2-dev still, the same error shows up. For which you need to run the configure command with --with-libxml2 option pointing to xml2-config binary as shown below:
#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/torque --with-libxml2=/usr/bin/xml2-config
How to find the xml2-config binary
After installing libxml2-dev, to find the xml2-config binary, follow the below command:
#whereis xml2-config
xml2-config: /usr/bin/xml2-config /usr/share/man/man1/xml2-config.1.gz
Installation Completed!
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