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    Use pkg-config, if available, to locate libxml2 during configure. · 0bc8cebd
    Tom Lane authored
    If pkg-config is installed and knows about libxml2, use its information
    rather than asking xml2-config.  Otherwise proceed as before.  This
    patch allows "configure --with-libxml" to succeed on platforms that
    have pkg-config but not xml2-config, which is likely to soon become
    a typical situation.
    
    The old mechanism can be forced by setting XML2_CONFIG explicitly
    (hence, build processes that were already doing so will certainly
    not need adjustment).  Also, it's now possible to set XML2_CFLAGS
    and XML2_LIBS explicitly to override both programs.
    
    There is a small risk of this breaking existing build processes,
    if there are multiple libxml2 installations on the machine and
    pkg-config disagrees with xml2-config about which to use.  The
    only case where that seems really likely is if a builder has tried
    to select a non-default xml2-config by putting it early in his PATH
    rather than setting XML2_CONFIG.  Plan to warn against that in the
    minor release notes.
    
    Back-patch to v10; before that we had no pkg-config infrastructure,
    and it doesn't seem worth adding it for this.
    
    Hugh McMaster and Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut also made an earlier
    attempt at this, from which I lifted most of the docs changes.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN9BcdvfUwc9Yx5015bLH2TOiQ-M+t_NADBSPhMF7dZ=pLa_iw@mail.gmail.com
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