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

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2016-03-01 22:12 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 02/29/16 21:35, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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.
> 
>  For exactly this reason I would like to introduce a config-script directory,
> e.g. $(HOST_DIR)/usr/cross-bin. In this directory we would put the
> cross-pkg-config and the fixed up config scripts we now search for in
> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin.

Like this:
    https://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot/log/?h=yem/foo-config-in-PATH

Last I sent this series, Thomas was not fond of it, IIRC...

    http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-December/thread.html#147891
    http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-December/147927.html
    and ensuing mails...

BTW, you were in Cc for that series. ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
> > 
> > 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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