Re: [xml] more questions on catalogs

["Aron Stansvik" <elvstone gmail com>]

On 2/24/06, Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com> wrote:
> Chris Wareham wrote:
> > Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > > > I've not looked through the other patches, but I don't think any changes
> > > > that are made to xml2-config have to do with XML catalog support. Those
> > > > kind of config scripts are normally just patched to add in things like
> > > > default linker paths. Programs don't have to be aware of where the
> > > > default catalog is, the library is configured to know when it's built.
> > >
> > >
> > > Programs - or more specifically, installation mechanisms for those
> > > programs - certainly do need to know where the default catalog resides.
> > >
> > > rick jones
> >
> > Yes, but in the case of NetBSD's pkgsrc, the "installation mechanism"
> > knows where the catalog is - after all, it's part of the system that set
> > the catalog's location.
>
> And how can my program - netperf4 - learn where NetBSD decided to stash the catalog?

I think the lesson is that there's no way to find out where a system
has its catalogs that is portable across all libxml2 platforms.

Aron