On Oct 23, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
:( It's probably less work to fix the (rare) use case of building static libraries than the (common) case of dynamic linking with libxml2 > We should push upstream to change the documentation to recommend pkg-config > and to explain the problems for dynamic linking when using xml2-config. Unfortunately, the libxml2 port doesn't have a maintainer - do we need a volunteer to contact them about this to try to get it updated? -- Daniel J. Luke
