On 2020-03-10 12:41, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
On 10 Mar 2020, at 11:53, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote:
Debian (and Ubuntu) are beginning to remove foo-config legacy scripts.
Already, xml2-config has been flagged for removal, with packages being
asked to switch to pkg-config.
This patch uses pkg-config's PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro to detect libxml2
or, if pkg-config is not available, falls back to xml2-confg.
This was previously discussed in 20200120204715.ga73...@msg.df7cb.de which
ended without a real conclusion on what could/should be done (except that
nothing *had* to be done).
What is the situation on non-Debian/Ubuntu systems (BSD's, macOS etc etc)? Is
it worth adding pkg-config support if we still need a fallback to xml2-config?
Btw., here is an older thread for the same issue
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1358164265.29612.7.camel%40vanquo.pezone.net>.
Might be worth reflecting on the issues discussed there.
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