PPA for Sigil 0.9.* ?

[latepaul]

Originally Posted by KevinH

FWIW, this is a real issue on Linux that no one seems to address. Breaking backwards binary compatibility (or even pseudo breakage by decree) just makes no sense.

Ah, an excuse to post one of my favourite Linus rants!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by st_albert

Thanks! This worked for me. In case others are interested, here's what I did:

Spoiler:

1) downloaded source code for libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz from ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ and extracted it into a working directory. (say, ~/workdir/)

2) cd to that directory and issue commands ./configure and make.

3) since I didn't want to install it system-wide, I didn't do "make install" but simply copied (as root) ~/workdir/.libs/libxml2.so.2.9.2 to /usr/local/libs/sigil/ (which is where the sigil binary is located)

4) cd /usr/local/libs/sigil and (as root) ln libxml2.so.2.9.2 libxml2.so2

and that did it. My system is Kubuntu 16.04.1 64-bit Xenial Xerus

Albert

That's the ticket! (although I assume you meant renamed to libxml.so.2 and not .so2).

I've got a makeself installer that will locate the Sigil binary and place a patched libxml2 v2.9.4 next to it (for those less adventuresome). I just want to verify that I've covered my bases before making it available.

[KevinH]

libxml2.so.2

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by KevinH

libxml2.so.2

I knew we'd get there eventually.

[Arran]

Originally Posted by st_albert

Thanks! This worked for me. In case others are interested, here's what I did:

Spoiler:

1) downloaded source code for libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz from ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ and extracted it into a working directory. (say, ~/workdir/)

2) cd to that directory and issue commands ./configure and make.

3) since I didn't want to install it system-wide, I didn't do "make install" but simply copied (as root) ~/workdir/.libs/libxml2.so.2.9.2 to /usr/local/libs/sigil/ (which is where the sigil binary is located)

4) cd /usr/local/libs/sigil and (as root) ln libxml2.so.2.9.2 libxml2.so2

and that did it. My system is Kubuntu 16.04.1 64-bit Xenial Xerus

Albert

Thank you very much for this. However, I have one question: I am still, and will probably stay until 2019, with Kubuntu 14.04-5. Will your way also work? Or do I compulsory need a distro with Plasma 5?

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I knew we'd get there eventually.

Ya can't slip nothin' past you guys!

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by Arran

Thank you very much for this. However, I have one question: I am still, and will probably stay until 2019, with Kubuntu 14.04-5. Will your way also work? Or do I compulsory need a distro with Plasma 5?

Others please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe kubuntu 14.04.5 has libxml2 version 2.9.1, which doesn't have the "double entity" bug. You should be OK.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by st_albert

Others please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe kubuntu 14.04.5 has libxml2 version 2.9.1, which doesn't have the "double entity" bug. You should be OK.

This correct. This is only applicable to Linux flavors/versions that have libxml2 version 2.9.3 or higher.

There was a similar bug in earlier versions (2.8.x-ish), but that should only affect really old versions of Linux (in conjunction with QtWebKit).

Running `xmllint --version` at a command prompt should tell you what your system version of libxml2 is.

Mine reports "using libxml version 20904", which corresponds to 2.9.4 (meaning my version of libxml2 on Arch suffers from the bug--unless they've patched it. Which I know they haven't).