Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 3/4/13 1:36 PM, Noah Misch wrote: Do you have in mind a target system exhibiting a problem? CentOS 6 ships a single xml2-config, but its --cflags --libs output is the same regardless of the installed combination of libxml2-dev packages. Ubuntu 13.04 does not ship 32-bit libxml2, so it

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-20 Thread Noah Misch
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:17:11PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 3/4/13 1:36 PM, Noah Misch wrote: Do you have in mind a target system exhibiting a problem? CentOS 6 ships a single xml2-config, but its --cflags --libs output is the same regardless of the installed combination of

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com writes: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:17:11PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 3/4/13 1:36 PM, Noah Misch wrote: Do you have in mind a target system exhibiting a problem? CentOS 6 ships a single xml2-config, but its --cflags --libs output is the same regardless of

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-04 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:30:11PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:25 -0500, Noah Misch wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:51:05AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: In multi-arch OS installations, using a single foo-config script to find libraries is problematic,

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:25 -0500, Noah Misch wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:51:05AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: In multi-arch OS installations, using a single foo-config script to find libraries is problematic, because you don't know which architecture it will point to, and you

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-03-01 Thread Noah Misch
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:51:05AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: In multi-arch OS installations, using a single foo-config script to find libraries is problematic, because you don't know which architecture it will point to, and you can't choose which one you want. Using pkg-config is better

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-01-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 10:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: The attached patch looks for pkg-config first, and finds libxml2 using that if available. Otherwise it falls back to using xml2-config. What happens if pkg-config is installed but doesn't know

[HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-01-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
In multi-arch OS installations, using a single foo-config script to find libraries is problematic, because you don't know which architecture it will point to, and you can't choose which one you want. Using pkg-config is better in that situation, because you can use its environment variables to

Re: [HACKERS] find libxml2 using pkg-config

2013-01-14 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: The attached patch looks for pkg-config first, and finds libxml2 using that if available. Otherwise it falls back to using xml2-config. What happens if pkg-config is installed but doesn't know anything about xml2? I'd expect the code to fall back to