1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 58a4726..7f10e96 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([petscconf.h],[],
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([petscmat.h],[],
 [AC_MSG_ERROR("The PETSc headers are needed to build the system.")])
 
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libxml/parser.h],[],
+[AC_MSG_ERROR("The libxml2 headers are needed to build the system.")])
+
 ########################
 # MODULE: NCBI Toolkit #
 ########################
@@ -79,4 +82,10 @@ AC_SEARCH_LIBS([VecNorm],[petscvec])
 AC_SEARCH_LIBS([MatCreateSeqAIJ],[petscmat],[],
 [AC_MSG_ERROR("The Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) is needed to build the system.")])
 
+###################
+# MODULE: libxml2 #
+###################
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS([xmlCreatePushParserCtxt],[xml2],[],
+[AC_MSG_ERROR("The libxml2 library is needed to build the system.")])
+
 AC_OUTPUT