[Bug 202006] textproc/libxml2: xml2-config --libs output lists private libraries causing overlinking

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202006

--- Comment #3 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Kubilay Kocak from comment #2)
Ok, so the patch adds --static to xml2-config.  I'm not going to object to it
then but I do have some reservations.  I think it's wrong for the ports tree to
add features like that because they make FreeBSD behave differently than other
systems.  There may also be scripts that rely on the current behaviour.

This is something that you should discuss upstream, but I don't think upstream
will accept it for the simple reason that xml2-config predates pkgconfig and
the only reason it's still part of the package is backwards compatibility.  New
code is supposed to use pkgconfig.  If backwards compatibility is going to be
broken they might just as well remove the script.

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