Homebrew install libxml2 with python modules
Solution 1
First, you cannot install libxml2 because you already successfully installed it, so you will first need to uninstall it.
brew uninstall libxml2
Next you will need to edit the brew formula - which is simple enough to do --
type
brew edit libxml2
and change the line
system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--without-python"
to this:
system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--with-python"
This does not fix the problem with the brew formula, but it does force the flag "--with-python", so the next time you type brew install libxml2
it will install the python libraries.
If you need to reset the formula (undo your changes), simply type brew update
Solution 2
This worked for me. First unlink/uninstall if done previously:
brew unlink libxml2
brew unlink libxslt
brew uninstall libxml2
brew uninstall libxslt
Then
brew install --framework python
brew install --with-python libxml2
brew install --with-python libxslt
brew link libxml2 --force
brew link libxslt --force
Voila!
Solution 3
What worked for was installing libxml2 with --with-python in brew command
brew install --with-python libxml2
Solution 4
The answer from kylehunt let me fix an issue that some how started to show up after I ran "brew upgrade" after upgrading to macOS Catalina:
If you happen to see things like
Error: libxml2: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libxml2.rb:53: syntax error, unexpected <<
<<<<<<< Updated upstream
^~
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libxml2.rb:54: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting end
... "--with-history",
... ^
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libxml2.rb:55: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting end
... "--without-python",
... ^
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libxml2.rb:57: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting end
... "--with-python",
...
It means you should run
brew edit libxml2
To fix the config file as it might have been broken by merge conflicts during upgrade. Look for <<<<< in the file.
Brandon
Updated on June 07, 2022Comments
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Brandon almost 2 years
Good morning,
I'm trying to install libxml2 with python modules. I have tried the following:
brew install --with-python libxml2 ==> Downloading ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Users/brandon/Library/Caches/Homebrew/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.8.0 --without-python
As you can see... even with the --with-python flag, it is still configuring the source without python!
At the end of the install, homebrew says:
Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add its lib & include paths to your build variables: LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.8.0/lib CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.8.0/include
When I try to install the gnome-doc-utils package:
Gnome-doc-utils requires libxml2 to be compiled with the python modules enabled, to do so: $ brew install libxml2 --with-python
So obviously I tried again...
╰─ brew install libxml2 --with-python Error: libxml2-2.8.0 already installed
I'm still new to this... so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Mike Funk about 11 yearsThank you so much, this fixed my problem after searching for quite a while!
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Hugh Guiney over 10 yearsI tried this but
make install
failed with*** [install-am] Error 2
and*** [install-recursive] Error 1
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Kyle S. over 8 yearsThis helped me with fixing some issues I was having with using the lxml parser in Beautifulsoup with a brew installed version of Python so thank you!
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Christopher Hunter about 7 yearspoint of order: brew will complain if you try and uninstall libxml2 before libxslt, because the former is required by the latter. Switching the order of the uninstalls worked for me
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revau.lt over 2 yearsUse
brew install --build-from-source libxml2
after editing libxml2 if it uses the bottled version.