Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184170
xml2-config lies
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:26 EST
Description of problem: As someone has chosen not to install libxml2.la with the package or the devel package, xml2-config --libtool-libs should report the empty string or better yet a detectable error message; this is an egregious error, but if at least properly handled by modifying xml2-config, other packages expecting libxml2.la at configure time can compensate reliably. libxml2.la is installed by default if building and installing from xmlsoft.org downloaded sources. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always. x=`xml2-config --libtool-libs` ls -l $x Actual results: /usr/lib/libxml2.la ls: /usr/lib/libxml2.la: No such file or directory Expected results: xml2-config: error: libtool archives not packaged for fedora. blame the packager. Additional info:
libtool archives are not not packaged in Fedora/RHEL as a policy for all libraries. Blaming the packager who is also the person bringing you the hundred of thousand of lines of code of this library is of really poor taste, blame is too easy on the receiving end. Try to pick less insulting terms (lie, blame ...) next time you ask for something, thanks in advance. That said I mofified it upstream to not report a value if the file is not readable. Daniel