Changeset ead4657 for general

Timestamp:

02/05/2024 07:36:29 PM (4 months ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, lazarus, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

d5aa738

Parents:

18381fd0

Message:

Change libxml2 to use ICU.

Also adapt QtWebEngine now that it uses the system copy of libxml2.

File:

• general/genlib/libxml2.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

general/genlib/libxml2.xml

@@ -83 +83 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libxml2 Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      <xref linkend="icu"/>
+    </para>
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
-      <xref linkend="icu"/> (see below) and
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/> (may be used in the tests)
     </para>
@@ -102 +106 @@
             --disable-static        \
             --with-history          \
+            --with-icu              \
             PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libxml2-&libxml2-version; &amp;&amp;
@@ -144 +149 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      Finally, prevent some packages from unnecessarily linking to ICU using
+      the following commands as the &root; user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -vf /usr/lib/libxml2.la &amp;&amp;
+sed '/libs=/s/xml2.*/xml2"/' -i /usr/bin/xml2-config</userinput></screen>
+
   </sect2>
 
@@ -159 +173 @@
 
     <para>
+      <parameter>--with-icu</parameter>: This switch enables support for
+      <application>ICU</application>, which provides additional Unicode support.
+      This is needed for some packages in BLFS, such as for QtWebEngine.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
       <parameter>PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3</parameter>: Allows building
       the libxml2 module with Python3 instead of Python2.
     </para>
 
-    <para>
-      <option>--with-icu</option>: Add this switch if you have built
+<!--
+    <para>
+      <option>- -with-icu</option>: Add this switch if you have built
       <xref linkend="icu"/>, for better unicode support.
     </para>
@@ -170 +191 @@
     <note>
       <para>
-        If the <option>--with-icu</option> switch is used, the BLFS editors
+        If the <option>- -with-icu</option> switch is used, the BLFS editors
         recommend removing unneeded references to the ICU libraries. This
         will prevent many packages that use libxml2 from unnecessarily linking
@@ -181 +202 @@
 sed '/libs=/s/xml2.*/xml2"/' -i /usr/bin/xml2-config</userinput></screen>
     </note>
+-->
 
   </sect2>