Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but
usable outside of the Gnome platform). XML itself is a metalanguage to design
markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are added to
the content using extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets.
===> The following configuration options are available for libxml2-core-2.15.1:
ICU=off: Unicode support via ICU
READLINE=on: History for xmllint
STATIC=on: Build static executables and/or libraries
THREAD_ALLOC=off: Per-thread memory (DEVELOPERS ONLY!)
====> Enable legacy API compatibility
HTTP=on: HTTP support
ZLIB=on: zlib compression support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Revert "textproc/libxml2*: update to 2.15.1, split -core"
The design of this update was repeatedly rejected in the linked PR
with a prescribed different design. This commit is therefore
unauthorised.
This reverts commit 099bd713e09ebdd02d73fde770c50706f980404f.
With hat: desktop (textproc/libxml2), gnome (USES=gnome)
PR: 291316
textproc/libxml2*: update to 2.15.1, split -core
libxml2 now requires xsltproc from libxslt to build,
yet libxslt depends on libxml2,
so we need to break a dependency cycle.
documentation needed to be split out to a separate port.
libxml2 has therefore been split into two ports,
* libxml2 builds the documentation (unless disabled),
* library and executables in libxml2-core.
Pull in one contributor patch suggested by the former libxml2 maintainer
to address one downstream security issue in recent libxslt versions.
This should address arrowd@'s hint that installing libxml2 should
provide a full-featured package.
While here, deprecate libxml2-python according to upstream plans, we
have very few users in the ports tree, and expire end of 2026Q1.
PR: 291316
