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Re: libxml2-dev header file locations ?



On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 16:14:19 -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> In trying to compile fontconfig, it looks for libxml2 and after installing
> libxml2-dev, it still complains that it's not there. 

> Is this a bug in fontconfig's configure script,

Yes. libxml2-dev includes a pkgconfig ".pc" file with information on the
proper CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to use for it; fontconfig's configure should use
pkg-config(1) to retrieve this information, preferably through the
PKG_CHECK_MODULES autoconf macro.

HTH,
Ray
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