Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: For libgcrypt if pkg-config is available use it

[Nathan Rossi <nathan@nathanrossi.com>]

On 5 January 2017 at 01:27, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:56:52AM +1000, Nathan Rossi wrote:
>> If libgcrypt info is available with pkg-config use it over using the
>> libgcrypt-config. pkg-config is preferred due to is compatibility with
>> cross-compilation (where you cannot execute the targets version of
>> libgcrypt-config).
>
> It can be made to work, but you need to modify $PATH to ensure it finds
> the build target libgcrypt-config first.
>
> eg on Fedora you'd do this with mingw32
>
>    PATH=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH ./configure ...
>
>> This change makes configure check for libgcrypt in pkg-config first,
>> then falling back to use libgcrypt-config if available. This follows a
>> similar process to how libsdl is handled.
>
> AFAIK, no version of libgcrypt has ever shipped a pkg-config file. Their
> maintainers have explicitly rejected patches adding that, ironically
> because they claim pkg-config doesn't handle cross-compilation and
> libgcrypt-config does :-)
>
> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2007-February/001109.html
> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2015-September/003569.html
>

Sorry for the noise. Turns out Yocto/OE patches support in to
libgcrypt for pkg-config, I did not realize (too many different things
in play :| ).

Regards,
Nathan

>
> So overall, I don't think this patch is needed/desirable for QEMU.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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