Re: Missing includes in STAGING_INCDIR

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:29 +0100, Tom Cooksey wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:05:09 Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:56 +0100, Tom Cooksey wrote:
> > > Yup, we like pkgconfig too, saves us a lot of work. :-) Sadly, we have to support 
> > > qt being built on 3rd party toolchains we have no access to and therefore no
> > > way to modify. pkg-config caused a headache for support so we've dropped it
> > > by default when cross-compiling. Hopefully we'll re-enable it in the future as
> > > the pkg-config devs seem to be working on the problem, providing an env 
> > > variable you can use to set a sysroot prefix (PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT).
> > 
> > Just for reference, it was OE users (well, Poky) who argued for that to
> > be introduced into pkgconfig to escape the mangling that we used to
> > do[1] ;-)
> > 
> > [1] We're literally in the process of removing that today.
> 
> Awesome! Well argued. :-) Does that mean PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT is stable
> enough now to be used in anger?

Poky has been using it for a while without too many problems and OE has
just switched to it. It seems to work well although it does highlight
there are some badly written pkgconfig files around...

Cheers,

Richard