Re: pkgconfig.bbclass changes

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

Henning Heinold wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:54:23PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Henning fixed up pkgconfig.bbclass (which should die, since
>> autotools.bbclass does a much better job), but I think this:
>>
>> -       for pc in `find ${S} -name '*.pc' -type f | grep -v --
>> '-uninstalled.pc$'`; do
>> +       for pc in `find ${D} -name '*.pc' -type f | grep -v --
>> '-uninstalled.pc$'`; do
>>
>> breaks -native recipes.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Koen
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry you are right. This indeed breaks native packages I didnt
> thought of it, while fixing the pc file of xine.

I've been there myself: fixing bugs and then hearing people about 
-native being broken.

> I think we can not let die pkgconfig.bbclass, because not all features are
> in autotools.class and there are cases where staging or install
> do not depend on the autotools install routines.

You are completely right about that, but we should move over autotools 
based recipes to the autotools code and only use pkgconfig.bbclass for 
non-autotooled recipes.

regards,

Koen