Hi Tollef, On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:10:50AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Those scripts can wrap pkg-config, and pkg-config already knows how to > provide user-defined variables, so this sounds like a problem that's > solveable.
What sounds obvious isn't. The important bit here is which architecture you are building for. pkg-config has an API for this: You invoke it as $DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE-pkg-config. Those foo-config scripts do not have this API (with rare exceptions). Thus they do not know the host architecture and have no way of correctly invoking pkg-config. Yes, there were proposals checking $DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE inside foo-config scripts, but this will just break those scripts for those users that are the reason for keeping them. So this doesn't work, but I cannot tell you what works, sorry. Helmut
