Masotti ... don't hijack existing messages with a new problem. Also you
will get much better help from either the php-general list or one of the
Ubuntu lists.

On 01/01/2019 19:59, masotti@... [firebird-php] wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a VM Ubuntu 64-bit to debug and test, but
> instructions in build-setup @ PHP are poor and  five years old.
>
> ./configure is unable to find libxml2, correctly installed in system
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
>
> --with-xmldir-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> doesn't help.
> ....
> checking libxml2 install dir... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> checking for xml2-config path...
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> configure: error: libxml2 not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

That said, do you have the devel package installed for libxml2? I think
you need the header files to compile into your php build ...

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