Changeset f6061807

Timestamp:

05/27/2023 11:18:49 AM (11 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

58acc3e

Parents:

31120d7c

Message:

libxml2: Note how to remove unneeded references to ICU libraries for --with-icu

Or too many packages can link to ICU libraries w/o any real necessity
and cause upgrading ICU very nasty.

File:

• general/genlib/libxml2.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genlib/libxml2.xml

@@ -180 +180 @@
       <xref linkend="icu"/>, for better unicode support.
     </para>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        If the <option>--with-icu</option> switch is used, it's recommended
+        to remove unneeded references to the ICU libraries to prevent many
+        packages using libxml2 from unnecessarily directly linked to the ICU
+        libraries, so you won't need to rebuild too many packages when you
+        upgrade ICU to a new major version.  After installing libxml2, as
+        the &root; user, issue:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>rm -vf /usr/lib/libxml2.la &amp;&amp;
+sed '/libs=/s/xml2.*/xml2"/' -i /usr/bin/xml2-config</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
 
   </sect2>