[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #9442: configure libxml2 with pkg-config
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jan 5 18:21:41 UTC 2011
On 01/05/2011 08:56 AM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:49 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> If having the script patch, or packaging a patched version and hosting
>> it on our Google Code prereqs download site, or making sure the script
>> gets the upstream version with the fix, or even having our script
>> actually fix the already-installed-by-the-broken-libxml2-installer
>> libxml-2.0.pc file isn't an option, then if nothing else, it will allow
>> us to remove the hack in the future.
> IMHO having this patch, i.e. using pkg-config to get include paths, is a
> 'good thing' in that it makes configure more robust. It's not a fudge
> for Windows or cross compiling. Most of the libraries that myth depends
> on use pkg-config in their configure scripts.
>
The hack I was referring to was fixing the libxml2 package-config info
to remove the space--just because they should really make a prettier pc
file. The rest is fine.
Mike
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