Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/environment-setup: export pkgconf's evironment variables

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:53:19 +0200
Antoine Coutant via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> wrote:

> pkgconf can not find libraries outside of the default sysroot without
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH properly set.
> 
> Make environment-setup export those variables so that pkgconf can
> look for libraries in the buildroot sysroot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Coutant <antoine.coutant@smile.fr>
> ---
> The issue can be reproduced by searching for libraries using buildroot's
> pkgconf after sourcing environment-setup.
> 
> I found the issue when compiling using meson. The meson "dependency"
> keyword uses pkgconf to find libraries, which uses pkgconf
> (and other programs) [1].
> 
> [1]: https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Coutant <antoine.coutant@smile.fr>

This patch shouldn't be needed I believe. We install
HOST_DIR/bin/pkg-config which properly defines those variables. Why are
you using HOST_DIR/bin/pkgconf directly and not HOST_DIR/bin/pkg-config
?

Best regards,

Thomas
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