Re: [PATCH] Use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to detect the libxml2 library

> On 10 Mar 2020, at 11:53, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster@outlook.com> wrote:

> Debian (and Ubuntu) are beginning to remove foo-config legacy scripts.
> Already, xml2-config has been flagged for removal, with packages being
> asked to switch to pkg-config.
>
> This patch uses pkg-config's PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro to detect libxml2
> or, if pkg-config is not available, falls back to xml2-confg.

This was previously discussed in 20200120204715.GA73984@msg.df7cb.de which
ended without a real conclusion on what could/should be done (except that
nothing *had* to be done).

What is the situation on non-Debian/Ubuntu systems (BSD's, macOS etc etc)?  Is
it worth adding pkg-config support if we still need a fallback to xml2-config?

cheers ./daniel