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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
	yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux] objtool: fix pkg-config query in case of cross-compilation
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:26:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc009072-64d4-4be3-0bb2-20be4d5c357f@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4208204.4d101oJ1v5@devpool35>

Le 11/04/2019 à 10:52, Rolf Eike Beer a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2019, 10:39:40 CEST schrieb Nicolas Dichtel:
>> In case of cross-compilation, there may be two pkg-config tools, one for
>> the host and one for the target. Enable to override the default name.
>>
>> Fixes: 056d28d135bc ("objtool: Query pkg-config for libelf location")
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
> 
> If you do that, you have to fix a lot of other places, too. This starts in 
> scripts/kconfig/ and also includes e.g. tools/testing/.
> 
> Usually you have pkg-config for host and ${target_platform}-pkg-config for the 
My use case was for buildroot, which define pkg-config and host-pkgconf. In
fact, I've just seen that a buildroot patch was accepted for this problem:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1081379/


Regards,
Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-11  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11  8:39 [PATCH linux] objtool: fix pkg-config query in case of cross-compilation Nicolas Dichtel
2019-04-11  8:52 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-04-11  9:26   ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2019-04-11 13:50     ` Rolf Eike Beer

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