Re: BUG #7485: 9.2 beta3 libxml2 can't be loaded on Windows

Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Seems pretty brute-force. Why not just
>>>
>>> #if LIBXML_VERSION > 20703
>>> #define HAVE_XMLSTRUCTUREDERRORCONTEXT
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> in some suitable place (probably xml.c itself, since I don't think we
>>> want to #include xmlversion.h in global headers)?
>>>
>>> Or actually, maybe we could just unconditionally define
>>> HAVE_XMLSTRUCTUREDERRORCONTEXT in pg_config.h.win32. Is anybody
>>> likely to still be building PG with ancient libxml on Windows?

>> That works for me. Using older libxml's would be a bad idea anyway -
>> and there are precompiled binaries available, so it's not hard to get.

> Works as in, I'm happy with it. I haven't tested. Though, it'll likely
> break some of the old BF animals (temporarily, I hope).

On the whole plan A sounds safer (ie look at LIBXML_VERSION in place of
using a configure test). I'll work on that tonight or tomorrow, if
nobody beats me to it.

regards, tom lane