On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 9:24 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Neal -
> >
> > Daniel's original suggestion here (make pkg-config always look in /app
> too) actually seems fine to me and simple, and I don't see any downsides.
> But certainly flatpak-rpm-macros doesn't *just* modify RPM macros, it
> currently also:
> >
> >  - Changes the installation prefix for Python by dropping a distutils.cfg
> >  - Adds a configuration file for Maven to change install and search paths
> >
> > So it's sort of a more general "flatpak-rpm-build" environment. If there
> was a way to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH globally for the buildroot upon install of
> the package, that could work too. (Or, yes, we could set FLATPAK_RPM_BUILD
> and make pkg-config react to that). But how would you do that? mock
> --chroot doesn't seem to pick things up from /etc/profile.d or
> /etc/environment.
> >
> > The only way I can think of doing it would be by configuring rpm.env.*
> for the Flatpak build tags in Koji, and losing the property that you can
> "just" drop flatpak-rpm-macros in to get the Flatpak RPM build environment.
> Do you see any other way?
> >
>
> Well, if you have a general package that's shipped in every buildroot
> for flatpak builds, you can ship your own wrapper, and I can make it
> check if RPM_BUILD_ROOT is defined *and* this file exists, it would
> redirect to that wrapper automatically. Or some variation of this.
>
> We used to do something similar for MinGW, I believe, so I think it'd work.
>

So, basically, your proposal is that we patch the pkg-config package so
that if /etc/flatpak-rpm-build exists then we set a default PKG_CONFIG_PATH
that includes /app? What's the advantage over just adding /app
unconditionally?

- Owen
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