Re: [PATCH] Use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to detect the libxml2 library

> On 16 Mar 2020, at 17:12, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Still, I think the number of people who'd get bit by that could be
> counted without running out of fingers, while it seems quite likely
> that many people will soon need to build our back branches on
> platforms that won't have xml2-config.

I agree with this assessment.

> So I'm now leaning to "back-patch and make sure to mention this in
> the next release notes". Barring objections, I'll do that soon.

None from me.

> I don't have a problem with s/libxml/libxml2/ in the running text
> (without changing the switch name).

+1

> Can't get too excited about
> <productname> though. I think we've only consistently applied
> that tag to PostgreSQL itself.

Fair enough. Looking at a random sample it seems we use a bit of a mix of
nothing, <application /> and <productname /> (the latter ones being more or
less equal in DocBook IIRC) to mark up externals.

cheers ./daniel