[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/meson: bump version to 0.52.0

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Oct 15 07:55:08 UTC 2019


On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:41:16 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

>  meson at least has good support for cross-compilation, including support for
> building tools for the build machine as part of the compilation process.
> However, that currently doesn't work completely because of pkg-config. Indeed,
> the same pkg-config will be used for build and for target.
> 
>  This sys_root option could help with that, because we could set pkgconfig
> directly to $(HOST_DIR)/bin/pkgconf instead of the wrapper (and configure
> pkgconf with $(HOST_DIR) as sysroot by default; the actual sysroot is anyway
> going to be set by the wrapper script).
> 
>  Unfortunately, this is not a complete solution because we still have the
> -static flag that we add in the wrapper script. I don't know if meson has
> support for that.

I haven't thought this through completely, but I believe that
per-package support also requires some flexibility that the wrapper
provides. But again, I haven't thought this through entirely, maybe it
would be doable with the meson sys_root option.

Thomas
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