From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: find libxml2 using pkg-config |
Date: | 2013-03-04 18:36:37 |
Message-ID: | 20130304183637.GA2978@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:30:11PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:25 -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:51:05AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > In multi-arch OS installations, using a single foo-config script to
> > find
> > > libraries is problematic, because you don't know which architecture
> > it
> > > will point to, and you can't choose which one you want. Using
> > > pkg-config is better in that situation, because you can use its
> > > environment variables to point to your preferred version
> > > of /usr/lib*/pkgconfig or similar.
> >
> > "./configure XML2_CONFIG=/my/preferred/xml2-config" achieves this
> > today.
>
> No.
>
> The way multi-arch installations work is that you have the libraries
> under /usr/lib and /usr/lib64, or /usr/lib/$arch1 and /usr/lib/$arch2,
> but only one /usr/bin. So there cannot be two foo-config scripts to
> cover this. There is, however, /usr/lib/pkgconfig
> and /usr/lib64/pkgconfig (or analogous), so pkg-config can handle this.
Do you have in mind a target system exhibiting a problem? CentOS 6 ships a
single xml2-config, but its --cflags --libs output is the same regardless of
the installed combination of libxml2-dev packages. Ubuntu 13.04 does not ship
32-bit libxml2, so it avoids the question.
--
Noah Misch
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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