From d52680eec04c83c9350ebedebea19f9aa67ac1e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:27:09 +0100
Subject: gnu: libxml2: Don't reference libxml2.a in the default output.

* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxml2)[arguments]: Add substitution for libxml2.la.
---
 gnu/packages/xml.scm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index fd4c3fea2c..b85064ed7f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ hierarchical form with variable field lengths.")
                                     (rename-file ar (string-append dst "/"
                                                                    (basename ar))))
                                   (find-files src "\\.a$"))
+
+                        ;; Remove reference to the static library from the .la
+                        ;; file such that Libtool does the right thing when both
+                        ;; the shared and static variants are available.
+                        (substitute* (string-append src "/libxml2.la")
+                          (("^old_library='libxml2.a'") "old_library=''"))
                         #t))))))
     (home-page "http://www.xmlsoft.org/")
     (synopsis "C parser for XML")
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