Re: [ft-devel] using pkg-config

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-09-17 03:56 AM, John Tytgat wrote:
> On 9/17/2013 8:50 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
>> 2013/9/17 Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>:
>>>> It also used to the case that pkg-config didn't handle
>>>> cross-compilation properly (I haven't checked this in a while), which
>>>> seems like it would be an issue for freetype.
>>> Works just fine for cross-compiling.  I do that every day.
>> It does?  How does it work?
> Define PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR

My favorite is in fact a wrapper. Eg.

$ cat ~/.local/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-pkg-config
#!/bin/sh
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=$HOME/.local/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
exec pkg-config "$@"




>> At least with standard autoconf practices, pkg-config doesn't even
>> seem to notice if you're cross-compiling, and just gives info for the
>> cross-compilation host, which is usually incorrect...
> True, that's the current situation but with PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR defined you can
> avoid this.
> 
> There are plans for a --host option
> (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/CrossCompileProposal/)
> but I don't know what the current state is.
> 
> John.

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