Re: [xml] more questions on catalogs

[Chris Wareham <chris wareham pa press net>]

Rick Jones wrote:
> Chris Wareham wrote:
> > Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > > All the more reason to have libxml2 installation create the default 
> > > catalog.
> >
> > Even if the libxml2 distribution is made to do this, many package
> > systems will patch the source to prevent it doing so. Using NetBSD's
> > pkgsrc for example, packages are not allowed to install files or
> > directories outside package root (/usr/pkg by default), so a default of
> > /etc/xml will be patched to be /usr/pkg/etc/xml.
>
> Are they then setting the magic environment variable in /etc/profile or 
> whatnot?
>
> rick jones

No, patching the source before building it:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/libxml2/patches/patch-ac?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Chris