On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:33:52 +0200 Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> writes: > >> 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? As Tollef mentions, this needs to be part of the setup of the cross-building toolchain - once we get a version of dpkg in Debian which can actually install, e.g. MultiArch aware armel packages on x86 and we have enough of those packages to create such a toolchain. > > ./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. Updated macros will work. autoreconf is your friend - until it breaks your world but that's an upstream issue. > 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. There is a patch which does implement it, it was decided to go the way that autotools already expects instead. > I will personnally block multiarch impagemagick until pkconfig is > multiarch friendly You are confusing cross-building and multiarch. Native building in multiarch world is not affected by cross-build support in pkg-config or toolchains or anything else. It's long been the case that cross-building issues in Debian should not block fixes for issues which relate to the native building. Cross-building in multiarch just does the right thing with regard to the paths - it was dpkg-cross which was doing the right thing in the wrong way and using different paths just because it got there first. Please do not confuse cross-building (supplying the --host argument to ./configure) with MultiArch (changing the paths in .install files etc.) - the two impact on each other but they are NOT the same problem. MultiArch is about installing natively built packages from multiple architectures side-by-side. In that context, there is no need for $arch-pkg-config or the wrapper script which the updated version of pkg-config provides because MultiArch builds are always native. Do not block multiarch anything on the basis of an assessment of the implications of cross-building support in pkg-config. Cross-building NEEDS lots of libraries to be converted to MultiArch before the tools can be adapted to a MultiArch world! Blocking MultiArch conversions prevents us cross-building and you then setup a vicious circle. Get everything MultiArch'd NOW, then we'll deal with cross-building, once enough stuff has migrated. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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