Re: Tom Lane 2020-01-21 <6994.1579567...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > > (Putting in support for pkg-config still makes sense, though.) > > Perhaps. Are there any platforms where libxml2 doesn't install a > pkg-config file? What are we supposed to do if there's no pkg-config?
I can't comment on the libxml2 part, but making pkg-config a hard requirement to build PG would probably be a safe bet nowadays. (I'm still not arguing that we should.) Re: David Steele 2020-01-21 <95349047-31dd-c7dc-df17-b488c2d34...@pgmasters.net> > Yes -- at least Ubuntu < 18.04 does not install pkg-config for libxml2. I > have not checked Debian yet, but I imagine < 8 will have the same issue. That is not true, I just verified that both 16.04 and 14.04 (already EOL) have a working `pkg-config libxml-2.0 --libs`. > Christoph, are you saying we perhaps won't need to make this change? I'm saying that the Debian libxml2 maintainer shouldn't try to make this change unilaterally without libxml2 upstream. Christoph
