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

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
>> But I don't understand the reason behind such a restriction to be
>> honest because libxml2 does not depend on libxslt. The contrary is
>> true: libxslt needs libxml2.
>
> Right.
>
>> Note as well that libxml2 does depend on ICONV though.
>
> Hm, is that true either?  I don't see any sign of such a dependency
> on Linux:
>
> $ ldd /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2.7.6
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff98f6b000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000000377a600000)
>         libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x000000377ae00000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003779e00000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003779a00000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003779600000)

Peaking into the libxml2 code there is a configure switch
--with-iconv, so that's an optional dependency. And the same exists
for Windows in their win32/stuff. So I am mistaken and this could be
just removed.
-- 
Michael