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From: justin <jlec@gentoo.org>
To: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>,
	"Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] pkg-config default search pathes
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:23:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E8FC07.1090609@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1407766447.git.silvio.fricke@gmail.com>

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On 11/08/14 16:22, Silvio Fricke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 

Hi Silvio,

What would happen in a real crosscompile case?

Justin



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-11 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 14:22 [RFC] [PATCH] pkg-config default search pathes Silvio Fricke
2014-08-11 14:22 ` [RFC] [PATCH] kconfig: menuconfig: pkg-config should base upon default configuration Silvio Fricke
2014-08-22 11:07   ` Michal Marek
2014-08-11 17:23 ` justin [this message]
2014-08-11 17:41   ` [RFC] [PATCH] pkg-config default search pathes Silvio Fricke
2014-08-11 18:04     ` justin

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