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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And man, all the odd patching Debian does for ill-defined reasons doesn't make things any easier. Which I assume is the reason for the problem anyway.
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That's a big part of the problem, yes. There's lots of different patched versions of the same base version floating around out there in repo-land. If I can get back to creating a binary Linux installer for Sigil, I should be able to distribute a version of libxml2 that doesn't suffer from this issue. It won't help those who live and die by their distro's package management system, but at some point, you just want the damn thing to work for everybody, you know? Sending the issues upstream for fixing is all fine and dandy in theory. But users don't seem to enjoy the theoretical bugfixes in their favorite software as much as they do the real bugfixes, for some reason.
@Greg: short of putting a bug-free older version of libxml2 in your /usr/local/share/sigil directory, there's not a lot you can do (unless you want to do a lot of custom compiling and potentially mess up your system libs).
I had a 32/64-bit version that worked well for Doitsu when he had the problem. It may get you through until your distro gets enough complaints and patches the libxml2 in their repos. I'll see if I can track it down.