Re: [BUG][PATCH] configure.ac: Respect the configured freetype-config

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

В Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:35:10 -0400
David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> пишет:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But FREETYPE cannot be anything than freetype-config, can it? Do you
> > actually have situation when AC_CHECK_PROGS([FREETYPE],
> > [freetype-config]) succeeds but call to freetype-config fails?
> 
> In my case, I noticed this issue while attempting to cross-compile
> GRUB for another system. It needs to use the cross-compiled freetype
> configuration, but the build system has its native freetype-config
> installed as well.  Using a variable here allowed me to specify the
> correct freetype-config as per the usual AC_CHECK_PROGS behavior.
> 

I still do not understand it. AC_CHECK_PROG does not change behavior in
case of cross-compilation, it simply finds first program in PATH.

Could you explain you setup in more details and show config.log both
with and without your patch?

> This isn't a big problem since I am able to build on the target system
> as well, but it would be nice to have working out of the box.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David