[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: Add a symlink to the GNU_TARGET_NAME-pkg-config

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 1 08:14:03 UTC 2016


Peter,

On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:09:34 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > 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.
> 
> On the other hand, the situations where you add it to the path are often
> where you _DO_ want to cross compile.

Indeed, but you often end up doing both cross-compilation and native
compilation, and it's pretty easy to get confused by a pkg-config
returning absurd values.

Thomas
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