| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libxml2 is dropping xml2-config |
| Date: | 2020-01-21 00:51:16 |
| Message-ID: | 6994.1579567876@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> Re: To PostgreSQL Hackers 2020-01-20 <20200120204715(dot)GA73984(at)msg(dot)df7cb(dot)de>
>> Debian reports that libxml2 is dropping the xml2-config binary:
> Please disregard that, I had assumed this was a change made by libxml2
> upstream. I'm in contact with the libxml2 Debian maintainer to get
> that change off the table.
I was wondering about that --- I had thought libxml2 upstream was
not terribly active anymore.
> (Putting in support for pkg-config still makes sense, though.)
Perhaps. Are there any platforms where libxml2 doesn't install a
pkg-config file? What are we supposed to do if there's no pkg-config?
(The workaround we have for that with ICU is sufficiently bletcherous
that I'm not eager to replicate it for libxml2...)
regards, tom lane
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