On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 10:19 -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Hi there, > > Debian dropped[1] xml2-config from libxml2-dev in experimental, > favoring the use of pkg-config instead. This caused some packages to > fail to build, autofs among them[2]. > > I'm submitting the attached patch for your consideration and > review/comments. I realize this is a distro change and shouldn't > affect autofs building when everything is installed from source, > unless libxml2 upstream decides to follow suit and drop xml2-config > as > well. > > Thanks! > > > 1. > https://salsa.debian.org/xml-sgml-team/libxml2/commit/53de4f8ae1469e9068a6ab341836e523324c64c3 > 2. https://bugs.debian.org/949055 The bug is right, the check should fail configure if libxml2 isn't found, that should be an improvement with that change so it would be good make it work. Ian
