0.9.0 fails to build even though BuildRequires: pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) is defined to install libxml2-devel or lib64xml2-devel

[Umeaboy]

I downloaded the src.rpm for wf-config and after I was done editing it to fit Mageia I installed all the dependencies defined in the .spec-file and all installed without any issues.

I then placed the tarball for wf-config from the src.rpm into ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ and then ran rpmbuild -ba wf-config.spec.
Attached is the full build output with its error.

wf-config failed to build.txt

wf-config spec file.txt

I don't see how I made a boo boo so please help me.

[papoteur-mga]

I tried also the build with the spec file.
I extract the failure:

Version: 1.8.2
Source dir: /builddir/build/BUILD/wf-config-0.9.0-build/wf-config-0.9.0
Build dir: /builddir/build/BUILD/wf-config-0.9.0-build/wf-config-0.9.0/build
Build type: native build
Project name: wf-config
Project version: 0.9.0
C++ compiler for the host machine: g++ (gcc 15.1.0 "g++ (Mageia 15.1.0-1.mga10) 15.1.0")
C++ linker for the host machine: g++ ld.bfd 2.44
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 2.3.0
Run-time dependency glm found: YES 1.0.1
Run-time dependency libevdev found: YES 1.13.4
Run-time dependency libxml-2.0 found: YES 2.13.8
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (4.0.3)
Run-time dependency doctest found: YES 2.4.11
Build targets in project: 12

wf-config 0.9.0

  User defined options
    auto_features : enabled
    bindir        : /usr/bin
    buildtype     : plain
    datadir       : /usr/share
    includedir    : /usr/include
    infodir       : /usr/share/info
    libdir        : /usr/lib64
    libexecdir    : /usr/libexec
    localedir     : /usr/share/locale
    localstatedir : /var
    mandir        : /usr/share/man
    prefix        : /usr
    sbindir       : /usr/sbin
    sharedstatedir: /var/lib
    sysconfdir    : /etc
    wrap_mode     : nodownload

Found ninja-1.12.1 at /usr/bin/ninja
+ /usr/bin/meson compile -C build -j 4 --verbose
ninja: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/wf-config-0.9.0-build/wf-config-0.9.0/build'
[1/33] g++ -Ilibwf-config.so.0.9.0.p -I. -I.. -Iinclude -I../include -I/usr/include/libevdev-1.0 -I -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fdiagnostics-color=always -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Wextra -std=c++17 -Wno-deprecated-declarations -O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -m64 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection=full -fPIC -MD -MQ libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o -MF libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o.d -o libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o -c ../src/section.cpp
FAILED: libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o 
g++ -Ilibwf-config.so.0.9.0.p -I. -I.. -Iinclude -I../include -I/usr/include/libevdev-1.0 -I -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fdiagnostics-color=always -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Wextra -std=c++17 -Wno-deprecated-declarations -O2 -g -pipe -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -m64 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection=full -fPIC -MD -MQ libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o -MF libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o.d -o libwf-config.so.0.9.0.p/src_section.cpp.o -c ../src/section.cpp
In file included from ../src/section.cpp:2:
../src/section-impl.hpp:4:10: fatal error: libxml/tree.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include <libxml/tree.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Thus libxml/tree.h is not found.
However, lib64xml-devel package is installed and it provides /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/tree.h
The compilation command has -I/usr/include/libxml2 , thus I don't understand why the include directive fails.
I see a suspicious -I just before.

[Umeaboy]

So is this a boo boo I made or..........?

[papoteur-mga]

Sorry, Kristoffer, but boo boo is not in my vocabulary, thus I don't understand what it is.
I get the same error as you. I just add that expected file seems to be at an expected place.

[Umeaboy]

It is said in the old classic TV show ALF when Willie falls into the "lagoon" that ALF has made in the Tanner's backyard.

Just as ALF gets asked why he dug the "lagoon" he answers "I made a boo boo".

Boo boo is a nother way of saying "I made a mistake and I'm sorry".

The NAME Boo boo comes from a childrens book that's been read in the movie called "Baby's day out" and that is about a baby that goes on an adventure just like the baby the book is being read for. :)