Re: Problem compiling meme suite under linux

[James Johnson]

Hi Arjun,

This error probably occurred because you have a version of libxml installed (which is quite common) but you don't have a matching version of libxslt or libexslt.

The MEME Suite comes bundled with both but will try to use the version installed on the system if it is available. Unfortunately libxslt requires a matching version of libxml so this is a frequent cause of linking errors.

The solution is simple, just reconfigure with the two flags "--enable-build-libxml" and "--enable-build-libxslt" and recompile the c code:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/dev/plas/meme --with-url=http://meme.nbcr.net/meme --enable-build-libxml2 --enable-build-libxslt
cd src
make clean
cd ..
make

~James

Edit: the original post had the typo of "--enable-build-libxml", this has now been corrected.

[Magdalena Strzelecka]

This worked great on: CentOS release 5.9 (Final). Thank you!