[Fontconfig] Re: Mathias Hasselmann's libxml2 patch

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Keith Packard wrote:

> I'd like to have a matching layer so you could build against either xml
> library; there remain a few environments which may prefer to use expat
> for a while longer yet. Realize that expat is rather a lot smaller tha
> libxml2. Of course, many applications are already using libxml2, making
> expat entirely spurious. If only there were a way to make
> per-application choices about which xml library to use.

Well, on glibc, dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, .) can be used to check
whether libxml2 and/or expat are already linked in.

> -keith

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