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Date:      Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:46:42 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@freebsd.org>, diizzy@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: a13ec21cd733 - main - textproc/libxml2: Update to 2.9.13 and migrate to CMake
Message-ID:  <Yj/CAk%2B96ydLsMxo@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <a6dc-ql86-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202203251715.22PHF28Y016653@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20220326.070901.887642314776104130.yasu@FreeBSD.org> <a6dc-ql86-wny@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 01:42:49AM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> ...
> While bumped in 247c7db7513f the actual issue is missing symbol versioning
> due to switch from autotools to cmake. For example, LIBXML2_2.6.0 is defined
> in libxml2.syms but only Makefile.am uses it via -Wl,--version-script.
> Other distros still use autotools, so didn't experience the ABI break.

This in turn brings up the question why switch from working autotools to
half-baked CMake glue which is also much heavier (to build) dependency.

./danfe



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