Re: [libxml++] 0.25 soon.

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

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Le Mercredi 16 Juillet 2003 08:25, Murray Cumming Comneon com a écrit :
> > From: Christophe de Vienne [mailto:cdevienne alphacent com]

> > 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.

Indeed.

>
> > 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.

I think you're right on this, as well as Eric is right saying that we should 
either remove it, either add version checking.

I choose to remove it. No objections ?


Cheers,

Christophe
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