Re: git: a13ec21cd733 - main - textproc/libxml2: Update to 2.9.13 and migrate to CMake

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:46:42 UTC 
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