On Oct 23, 2019, at 08:56, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Or does the port use libxml2? If so, it may be using a bad method of finding
>> libxml2. One bad method of finding libxml2 is using the xml2-config script.
>
> Should we just patch the xml2-config we distribute (and attempt to push those
> changes upstream) instead? http://www.xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html tells people to
> use xml2-config (so I suspect other upstream projects will be reluctant to
> include patches that switch from using xml2-config to pkg-config).
That would break anything trying to build static libraries with it.
We should push upstream to change the documentation to recommend pkg-config and
to explain the problems for dynamic linking when using xml2-config.
