Re: [RFC] [PATCH] pkg-config default search pathes

[justin <jlec@gentoo.org>]

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On 11/08/14 19:41, Silvio Fricke wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> 
> 2014-08-11 19:23 GMT+02:00 justin <jlec@gentoo.org>:
>>
>> On 11/08/14 16:22, Silvio Fricke wrote:
>>> please review this patch.
>>> I'm a little bit unsure if this patch is technicaly state-of-the-art because
>>> kbuild does it right. The problem is that some cross-toolchains (on my box is
>>> yocto installed) change the pkg-config search pathes to do some package-config
>>> setups for cross compiling.
>>> But the init of the toolchain manipulates PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR and
>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables that a pkg-config call searches in the wrong place to
>>> find the package and gives back the wrong values which we use to test the
>>> availability of ncurses installation and this break the [x,g,menu]config.
>>>
>>> Some recommendations for this?
>>
>> What would happen in a real crosscompile case?
> 
> 
> In a real crosscompile case we don't have a "crosscompile" [x,g,menu]config.
> This step is ever made with the host-toolchain. Or I miss something here?
> 

You are right, no need for using crosscompile to configure the kernel.
Looks good to me.

Justin



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