Re: find libxml2 using pkg-config

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-02-01T03:17:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 10:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@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 the old method, but this
> patch doesn't appear to have any sanity check whatsoever on pkg-config's
> output.

Updated patch to that effect