[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: Add a symlink to the GNU_TARGET_NAME-pkg-config

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 03/18/16 18:24, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout, All,
>
> On 2016-03-01 22:12 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
>> On 02/29/16 21:35, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> 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.
>>
>>   For exactly this reason I would like to introduce a config-script directory,
>> e.g. $(HOST_DIR)/usr/cross-bin. In this directory we would put the
>> cross-pkg-config and the fixed up config scripts we now search for in
>> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin.
>
> Like this:
>      https://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot/log/?h=yem/foo-config-in-PATH
>
> Last I sent this series, Thomas was not fond of it, IIRC...

  I re-read the thread and couldn't find a real argument from Thomas :-)

>
>      http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-December/thread.html#147891
>      http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-December/147927.html
>      and ensuing mails...
>
> BTW, you were in Cc for that series. ;-)

  Yes, it is still in my list of 500 mails marked "I really should reply to 
this, but it's going to take a bit of time so let's first do the easy stuff". 
Thomas DS can explain you all about that :-P

  Regards,
  Arnout


>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
>>   Regards,
>>   Arnout
>>
>>>
>>> However, doing this change means that any configure script or Makefile
>>> that calls pkg-config directly would no longer find our pkg-config.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>
>>
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