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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>,
	Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>,
	buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/re2: switch to generic-package make build
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:41:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220121084141.6eac525e@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220121065850.GF3252931@scaer>

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:58:50 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:

> So, I think that Peter's proposal is not so un-appealing, in then end.
> But then in such situation, I think it would be simpler for us to just
> apply something like:
> 
>     define RE2_INSTALL_PC
>         $(INTALL) -d -m 0644 $(@D)/re2.pc \
>             $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/pkgconfig/re2.pc
>         $(SED) 's,@includedir@,/usr/include,; s,@libdir@,/usr/lib,' \
>             $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/pkgconfig/re2.pc
>     endef
>     RE2_POST_STAGING_INSTALL_HOOKS += RE2_INSTALL_PC
> 
> And be done with it: minimal change to the re2 package, no dual-buildsystem
> situation and thus no install conflict on the headers, usual and simple
> post-install hook.

I might be missing something in the whole discussion, but why not patch
the CMake build system so that it also installs this .pc file, and
contribute this fix upstream ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-21  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-19  8:45 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/re2: switch to generic-package make build James Hilliard
2022-01-19 20:45 ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-01-20  0:42   ` James Hilliard
2022-01-20 21:29     ` Peter Seiderer
2022-01-20 23:57       ` James Hilliard
2022-01-21  6:58         ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-01-21  7:41           ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2022-01-21  7:59             ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-01-21 13:26               ` Thomas Petazzoni
2022-01-21 21:16                 ` James Hilliard
2022-01-21  9:17           ` James Hilliard

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