From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: Add a symlink to the GNU_TARGET_NAME-pkg-config
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:14:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160301091403.2b7ce2fc@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4a3m7v5.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>
Peter,
On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:09:34 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > 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.
>
> On the other hand, the situations where you add it to the path are often
> where you _DO_ want to cross compile.
Indeed, but you often end up doing both cross-compilation and native
compilation, and it's pretty easy to get confused by a pkg-config
returning absurd values.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-29 18:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: Add a symlink to the GNU_TARGET_NAME-pkg-config Jeroen Roovers
2016-02-29 19:19 ` Bernd Kuhls
2016-02-29 20:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-02-29 23:09 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-01 8:14 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-03-01 8:15 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-01 21:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-18 17:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-18 21:14 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02 20:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-18 17:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
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