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Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> former also implies the latter, anyway), configure checks for pkg-config  
> to get suitable values for LIBXML_CFLAGS, LIBXML_LIBS, LIBXSLT_CFLAGS,  
> LIBXSLT_LIBS.  However, at least on Mac, there appear to always (at  
> least when Xcode is installed) be /usr/bin/xml2-config and  
> /usr/bin/xslt-config that could be called instead of pkg-config.  (I  
> think those two executables are standard parts of the libxml2 and  
> libxslt packages, but I might be wrong.)

Yeah, the question is: how long? Everything nowadays is done by
pkg-config..

> Using the general pkg-config instead of (or before) the specific  
> xml2|xslt-config has at least two problems:
>
> For one, as Eric observed, it needlessly makes pkg-config a prerequisite  
> on Mac.

Not that argument again, plese...

> the former is not available or does not work).  I used a crude patch to  
> verify this (see below), but I would be happy if somebody with deeper  
> knowledge of autoconf (Rene?) turned this into a clean patch.

Please don't patch a generated file. Patch configure.in. (and run
autoconf)

Regards,

Rene
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