[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: Add a symlink to the GNU_TARGET_NAME-pkg-config
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Feb 29 20:35:20 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:19:58 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> > By setting a symlink to the expected target we might even solve some
> > real problems.
>
> two years ago I proposed a similar patch, which was rejected:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/312273/
If we were to do this, then I would prefer to completely remove
$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/pkg-config, and only have
$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/$(GNU_TARGET_NAME)-pkg-config.
What I dislike with the current setup is that if you add
$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin to your PATH, then any call to pkg-config returns
values that are valid only when cross-compiling, which is not
necessarily what one would expect.
However, doing this change means that any configure script or Makefile
that calls pkg-config directly would no longer find our pkg-config.
Best regards,
Thomas
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