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

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

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.

 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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