On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Sean Chittenden <s...@chittenden.org> wrote: >> You're right - using pkg-config, not xml2-config, is the BCP. Any Unix >> system with a libxml from the last few years should have this. > > I hate to be the stick in the mud, but pkg-config is a fantastic PITA that's > as joyous to work with as most of the autofuck utils. FreeBSD, Solaris, and > many other non-linux systems don't use pkg-config (not to say it can't, but > isn't). ruby-libxml should use xml2-config until a sufficiently well > adopted BSDL version of pkg-config is adopted and used by most posix > systems.
FreeBSD and Solaris have pkg-config, hell, I even have pkg-config on Windows. It's backed by freedesktop, nothing to do with autotools, it's simple, elegant and does the job that no other tool does. Simplifies the job of library writers and applications trying to use them. Integrates easily into autotools, but also simple Makefiles, and even mkmf. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if libxml drops the xml2-config script. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
