On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Daniel Veillard wrote:
What was the motivation for trying to shoehorn multi-arch support into
xml2-config?
Avoid keeping a distro specific patch, assuming it would work elsewhere.
What is your suggestion, removal or fixing ?
I would lean toward removal. The problem is harder than it looks, and even
if the code worked perfectly, there's no established convention (as far as
I'm aware) for requesting architecture X or Y from a foo-config script.
This is, after all, one of the reasons why most folks have moved on to
using pkg-config. I do like the simplicity of xml2-config, and pkg-config
can be a PITA to build on older Unix systems, so I'm not at all going to
say that xml2-config should go away. But I think it should stay simple---
and projects that want to consume LibXML2 in a multi-arch-aware capacity
should find it via pkg-config, relying on that framework's mature
multi-arch support.
--Daniel
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