GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341292
Flag to build python bindings against system libxml2 instead of locally compiled
Last modified: 2021-07-05 11:00:20 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #341290 +++ If I have built libxslt with --without-python and later decide I want python bindings, or I have built with python but now want to add bindings for a different python interpetter (--with-python=/some/other/path), it would be nice to be able to do so without having to recompile the whole libxslt library itself. I already have it installed, so I'd like to have a ./configure flag that causes the python/ Makefiles to use 'pkg-config libxslt' to figure out how to find it instead of using the libxslt.la, headers, and other pieces from the build dir. I already do this for the Fink package manager with some semi-icky hacks. If this sounds worthwhile, I'd be willing to work on implementing it cleanly with flags (--with-installed-libxslt or somesuch?).
This would be doable with non-hackish, although not always optimal, autoconf subproject feature. You can find examples of how to do this in libgphoto2, mutter or telepathy-gabble for example.
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