Re: [xml] (Broken) multi-arch support in xml2-config

[Daniel Richard G. <oss teragram com>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> > What was the motivation for trying to shoehorn multi-arch support into 
> > xml2-config?
>
> Avoid keeping a distro specific patch, assuming it would work elsewhere. 
> What is your suggestion, removal or fixing ?

I would lean toward removal. The problem is harder than it looks, and even 
if the code worked perfectly, there's no established convention (as far as 
I'm aware) for requesting architecture X or Y from a foo-config script.

This is, after all, one of the reasons why most folks have moved on to 
using pkg-config. I do like the simplicity of xml2-config, and pkg-config 
can be a PITA to build on older Unix systems, so I'm not at all going to 
say that xml2-config should go away. But I think it should stay simple--- 
and projects that want to consume LibXML2 in a multi-arch-aware capacity 
should find it via pkg-config, relying on that framework's mature 
multi-arch support.


--Daniel


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