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

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Aleksey Sanin wrote:

> 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.

Well, I suspect the makefiles done by Gary will be the ones that will be
used for the libxml shipping with Solaris anyways. But the whole point of
Gary's mails was that you don't need to link against "indirect"
dependencies.

> Aleksey

        Sander

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