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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: ola.x.nilsson@axis.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] ASSUME_PROVIDED and pkg-config-native
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:28:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fccaa28bd123ecf4fd993d6e8afd1e2e1bd7f97.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwqo6dwz98c.fsf@axis.com>

On Thu, 2026-09-17 at 08:24 +0200, Ola x Nilsson via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> It seems it's not possible to use pkg-config to find .pc files of
> all native recipes that are in the ASSUME_PROVIDED list.  Is this
> supposed to work and I'm doing something wrong?  I'd appreciate any
> pointers. 

It isn't meant to work. The only recipe that has logic to poke into the
host's pkgconfig is qemu due to the graphics needs. We ideally keep the
needed ASSUME_PROVIDED entries small. Where libraries are needed (e.g.
libz), we tend to try and build them ourselves.

Cheers,

Richard


      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-17  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-17  6:24 ASSUME_PROVIDED and pkg-config-native Ola x Nilsson
2026-09-17  6:28 ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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