Re: gettext dependency on libxml2

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Santiago,

> I've just modified the Debian gettext package so that it build-depends
> on the development packages for ncurses xml2, glib2.0 and croco.
> 
> However, the resulting binaries do not seem to depend on libxml2.
> Is this normal/expected or maybe I have made a mistake somewhere?

Possibly the same problem as in <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22831>.
Newer libxml2 versions are structured differently than older ones, making the
gettext-0.17 autoconf test for libxml2 fail. Will be fixed in gettext-0.18.
The workaround is to add -I/usr/include/libxml2 to the CPPFLAGS before/while
running configure.

Bruno