On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> writes: >> | I don't know how pkg-config handles multiarch either, but however >> | it detects the desired host arch (is it just the PKG_CONFIG_PATH >> | variable?), your /usr/bin/foo-config shouldn't have to care. >> >> Your cross-toolchain is supposed to set up a symlink from >> /usr/bin/$triplet-pkg-config to /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper which >> will then DTRT. That's the idea at least, I haven't actually tested >> it. > > How is one supposed to make pkg-config use this feature? > > I mean, say I do: > > ./configure --host=muckey-muck-muck --build=my-host-type > > That generally does something reasonable for compilers, but ... not > for pkg-config, using the normal PKG_... autoconf macros. > > A brief browse of the pkg-config docs doesn't show any obvious > user-level way of specifying an alternate host architecture. There's > the environment variable "PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR", but that seems a > little low-level.
They are a proposition at freedesktop about a --host flags http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/CrossCompileProposal But was never implemented. I will like to see this. I will personnally block multiarch impagemagick until pkconfig is multiarch friendly Bastien > Thanks, > > -Miles > > -- > One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to > do, and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/buoipou6y2x....@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAE2SPAat=q-y3m2pmxx+jhpdsouiokugglw8fpw2ueruw1v...@mail.gmail.com
