Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] configure: sanity check the glib library that pkg-config finds

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:01:12PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fr, 2015-11-13 at 11:31 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Developers on 64-bit machines will often try to perform a
> > 32-bit build of QEMU by running
> > 
> >   ./configure --extra-cflags="-m32"
> > 
> > Unfortunately if PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is not set to point to
> > the location of the 32-bit pkg-config files, then configure
> > will silently pick up the 64-bit pkg-config files and still
> > succeed.
> 
> While being at it:  I think it would be a good idea to record
> PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in config.status, otherwise it'll be lost the next
> time configure is touched and make figures it needs to re-run configure.

In the spirit of doing one logical change per patch, I'm sending a
separate patch to cover this suggestion.

Regards,
Daniel
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