WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.7, but has dynamically loaded 2.6.16

Question

I can’t work out why I’m getting this error from Nokogiri when I start up Rails. From the little I know, it seems like something else is causing an older version of libxml2 to be loaded, which Nokogiri then ends up using, rather than the version it was compiled against.

What do I need to do to get this working without the warning (and with the right libxml2)?

I’m running this on a Macbook with OS X 10.5.8:

$ rake db:create
(in /Users/gareth/Sites/Rails3/ngtest)
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.7, but has dynamically loaded 2.6.16
HI.  You're using libxml2 version 2.6.16 which is over 4 years old and has
plenty of bugs.  We suggest that for maximum HTML/XML parsing pleasure, you
upgrade your version of libxml2 and re-install nokogiri.  If you like using
libxml2 version 2.6.16, but don't like this warning, please define the constant
I_KNOW_I_AM_USING_AN_OLD_AND_BUGGY_VERSION_OF_LIBXML2 before requring nokogiri.

ngtest_test already exists
ngtest_development already exists

$ DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 rake db:create
dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/ruby
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dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/enc/encdb.bundle
dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/enc/trans/transdb.bundle
dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/etc.bundle
(in /Users/gareth/Sites/Rails3/ngtest)
dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/stringio.bundle
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dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib
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dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/zlib.bundle
dyld: loaded: /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
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dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/nokogiri-1.4.4/lib/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle
dyld: loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26/lib/libexslt.0.dylib
dyld: loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
dyld: loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.7/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.7, but has dynamically loaded 2.6.16
HI.  You're using libxml2 version 2.6.16 which is over 4 years old and has
plenty of bugs.  We suggest that for maximum HTML/XML parsing pleasure, you
upgrade your version of libxml2 and re-install nokogiri.  If you like using
libxml2 version 2.6.16, but don't like this warning, please define the constant
I_KNOW_I_AM_USING_AN_OLD_AND_BUGGY_VERSION_OF_LIBXML2 before requring nokogiri.

dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/racc/cparse.bundle
dyld: loaded: /Users/gareth/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-darwin9.8.0/socket.bundle
ngtest_test already exists
ngtest_development already exists

$ nokogiri -v
--- 
warnings: []

nokogiri: 1.4.4
ruby: 
  version: 1.9.2
  platform: i386-darwin9.8.0
  engine: ruby
libxml: 
  binding: extension
  compiled: 2.7.7
  loaded: 2.7.7

Answer 1

In the end I had to install the gem against the specific versions of xml2 and xslt I have installed:

gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.7/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.7/lib --with-xslt-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26
#. scrollbar line, so the code can be seen

The problem was most likely bad library management, switching between package managers without being tidy enough about it.

Answer 2

Fix for Nokogiri w. libxml2 2.7.8 loading libxml2 2.7.3

Wanted to add to the above answers: If you dont have libxml2 in the Cellar directory on OSX, you can install it to this using homebrew, as explained on Nokogiri's homepage (homebrew 0.8 or higher, test with brew -v):

brew install libxml2 libxslt
brew link libxml2 libxslt
gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/lib --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/include