| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts |
| Date: | 2016-09-08 12:39:06 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevExCc9Hrcep+ssvDwXBxXB1PDRjs6U2dYjk+vvVCOxxuFA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > But I don't understand the reason behind such a restriction to be
> > honest because libxml2 does not depend on libxslt. The contrary is
> > true: libxslt needs libxml2.
>
> Right.
>
Pretty sure this goes back to *our* XML support requiring both. As in you
couldn't turn on/off xslt independently, so the "xml requires xslt" comment
is that *our* xml support required both.
This may definitely not be true anymore, and that check has just not been
updated.
Also this was 10 years ago, so I'm of course not 100% sure, but I think it
was something like that...
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