> On 10 Mar 2020, at 11:53, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Debian (and Ubuntu) are beginning to remove foo-config legacy scripts. > Already, xml2-config has been flagged for removal, with packages being > asked to switch to pkg-config. > > This patch uses pkg-config's PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro to detect libxml2 > or, if pkg-config is not available, falls back to xml2-confg. This was previously discussed in 20200120204715.ga73...@msg.df7cb.de which ended without a real conclusion on what could/should be done (except that nothing *had* to be done). What is the situation on non-Debian/Ubuntu systems (BSD's, macOS etc etc)? Is it worth adding pkg-config support if we still need a fallback to xml2-config? cheers ./daniel
