Re: Missing includes in STAGING_INCDIR

[Tom Cooksey <thomas.cooksey@trolltech.com>]

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?


Cheers,

Tom