Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It might accidentally fail to fail as-is, but likely it would be better
>> not to be pushing garbage paths into extraincludes and extralibs when
>> some of those options aren't set.

> Right, we need to correct something here. But this block does not need
> any adjustment: it can just be deleted. A contrib module is added via
> AddProject() in Solution.pm, and if the build is done with xml, xslt
> or iconv their libraries and includes are added in any case, for any
> declared project. So declaring a dependency with xml or xslt is just
> moot work, and actually this would be broken without AddProject
> because it is missing to list iconv.lib... At the same time, I think
> that we could fix the inclusions with uuid for uuid-ossp, and just put
> them as well in AddProject with the rest. Please see the updated
> cleanup patch attached.

Looks reasonable to me, we'll soon see what the buildfarm thinks.
        regards, tom lane