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

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

As one of Solaris users for LibXML I would strongly disagree with this idea.
I would like to have *the same* Makefiles on all platforms and I do not 
see reasons
why I need to add -lsocket for Solaris manually.
If your application does not use threads or networking you may 
configure/compile
LibXMLby yourself and use --without-http, --without-ftp, etc. flags to 
remove
these dependencies. In case you use *shared* library compiled for 
general use
you would probably want to use linker that can trace dependencies and ignore
libraries not actually used.

Aleksey


> I'm also apologizing for generating so much noise over such a small 
> thing.
>
> I hadn't realised that it wasn't clear that I was referring only to 
> dynamic linking. (Actually, I hadn't even considered that anyone would 
> bother with static linking in this day and age.)
>
> I'll consider making this a Solaris specific patch as Daniel suggests.
>
> Gary