[Buildroot] [PATCH] boot/uboot: fix uboot build

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

K?ry, All,

On 2021-03-25 17:34 +0100, K?ry Maincent spake thusly:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:08:52 +0100
> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On Thu,  4 Feb 2021 18:04:46 +0100
> > Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > The make all command run the tools/makefile on the process.
> > > This makefile use "pkg-config" command to support static link.
> > > The issue is the use of pkg-config configured for crosscompiling
> > > to build binaries tools for host architecture.
> > > To fix it, I copied the behavior of QtWebengine by using a pkg-config
> > > executable preconfigured for host.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>  
> > Thanks for the patch. It would require a better commit title though, as
> > "fix uboot build" is very vague.
> Ok I will change it for v2.

> > After discussing with Yann E. Morin on IRC, could you try this change
> > instead:
> > 
> > 	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
> > 	        PKG_CONFIG="$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY)" \
> >         	PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="/" \
> > 	        PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 \
> > 	        PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS=1 \
> > 	        PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$(HOST_DIR)/lib/pkgconfig:$(HOST_DIR)/share/pkgconfig"
> > 
> > The reasoning is that U-Boot anyway only uses pkg-config for host
> > tools, so we could just as well pass those environment variables when
> > building U-Boot.
> > 
> > Could you try this out?
> 
> This change works well, the build of U-boot ends properly.

I don't seem to have seen a v2 of this patch. Do you plan on sending it
soonish? ;-)

Thanks!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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