Re: [xml] Generating a correct xml2-config for use with --libs

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:02:17PM +0100, Gary Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Patches which removes the unnecessary declaration of dependencies on 
> libraries which libxml2 depends upon itself, when generating the 
> xml2-config script.
> 
> Justification
> 
> Applications should only depend on those libraries which they need to 
> link to.
> 
> Problem
> 
> xml2-config lists all the libraries which libxml2 itself depends on, 
> when xml2-config is invoked:
> 
> e.g.
> 
> $ xml2-config --libs
> -L/usr/local/libxml/sparc/lib -R/usr/local/libxml/sparc/lib -lxml2 -lz 
> -lpthread -lm -lsocket -lnsl
> 
> This is wrong, the following is correct:
> 
> $ xml2-config --libs
> -L/usr/local/libxml/sparc/lib -R/usr/local/libxml/sparc/lib -lxml2

  Hum, I don't see why !

If libxml2 requires -lsocket, then I want it on the linker command line.

I want 
  $(CC) `xml2-config --cflags` foo.c -o foo `xml2-config --libs`

to be a working command to compile and link foo.c if it depends on libxml2
and this independantly of the (unix-like) system it's ran on. I don't really
care about extra dependancies, but I really want it to work everywhere.

Maybe Solaris doesn't need this, but then please make the patch conditional
to Solaris first (unless I misunderstood something).

  thanks,

Daniel

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