1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

M gnu/packages/xml.scm

@@ 283,6 283,18 @@ project (but it is usable outside of the Gnome platform).")
                 (base32
                  "17w0a622466k2hi5nln276la6rzfr9xaip3lqj71hmyvxyhmf0bq")))))))
 
+;; We need this for r-xml, which claims to support parsing gzipped XML files.
+;; This depends on the zlib feature, which is deprecated and will be removed
+;; in future releases of libxml2.
+(define-public libxml2-with-zlib
+  (hidden-package
+   (package
+     (inherit libxml2)
+     (arguments
+      (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments libxml2)
+        ((#:configure-flags flags #~'())
+         #~(cons "--with-zlib" #$flags)))))))
+
 (define-deprecated-package python-libxml2
   libxml2)