Re: [xml] Release of libxml2 2.9.11

[Jan Tojnar <jtojnar gmail com>]

> I fail to build libxslt 1.1.34 against it. The "configure" script of
> libxslt has this line:

libxml2 now behaves more correctly by rejecting invalid arguments like 
`print`. This is fixed in libxslt master so it no longer passes it the 
extra print argument.

In the meanwhile, you can use pkg-config to have libxslt find libxml2 
– it is a better solution than config-tools any way.

See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122851#issuecomment-840711103 
for more details.

On Thu, May 13 2021 at 21:27:37 +0200, Stefan Behnel 
<stefan_ml behnel de> wrote:
> Salut Daniel,
>
> Daniel Veillard via xml schrieb am 13.05.21 um 15:54:
> >    Pffff, I am way way behind, but now that CVE-2021-3541 is out I 
> > just pushed
> >  that long awaited release. libxml2 2.9.11 is tagged in git and a 
> > signed
> >  tarball is available at the usual place:
> >
> >      ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/
>
> I fail to build libxslt 1.1.34 against it. The "configure" script of
> libxslt has this line:
>
> """
> if test "x$LIBXML_LIBS" = "x" && ${XML_CONFIG} --libs print > 
> /dev/null 2>&1
> """
>
> which, I guess, is incorrect and shouldn't have the "print". However, 
> it
> seems that in previous versions of libxml2, the xml2-config script 
> printed
> the libs and then failed, whereas in 2.9.11/12 it does *not* print 
> the libs
> any more and fails immediately. This breaks the "configure" script of
> libxslt, which then reports that it could not find libxml2 anywhere.
>
> I guess the work-around is to set "LIBXML_LIBS" externally to the 
> result of
> "xml2-config --libs" until there is a fix in libxslt. But maybe 
> libxml2
> could just go back to being nice towards the faults of libxslt?
>
> Stefan
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