RE: [libxml++] 0.25 soon.

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Christophe de Vienne [mailto:cdevienne alphacent com] 
> Le Mardi 15 Juillet 2003 22:07, Eric Bourque a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:49, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
> > > Checking version of what ?
> >
> > The installed version of the library. See the comments in 
> the patch I
> > just submitted.
> >
> 
> I see. In fact this is what I would call the old method. With 
> pkg-config, this 
> is already supported. All you have to do is :
> 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XMLPP, libxml++-1.0 >= 0.25.0)
> 
> Moreover this wil define some extra variables, XML_LIBS and 
> XML_CFLAGS.

XMLPP_LIBS and XMLPP_CFLAGS.

> I think we should encourage this method.
> 
> (BTW we should switch to this to detect libxml.)
> 
> Will this macro encourage the old fashion method ? I'm not 
> sure. Murray what 
> do you think about it ?

I have always wanted to remove that old crap. pkg-config is the one true
way.

Murray Cumming
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