[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure: replace pkg-config calls $(PKG_CONFIG) in the makefiles.

[Stéphane Marchesin]

2011/10/3 Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org>:
> On 10/03/2011 03:59 PM, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
>>
>> 2011/10/3 Chad Versace<chad at chad-versace.us>:
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>>> On 10/03/2011 03:20 PM, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
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>>>> Us poor souls who cross compile mesa want to be able to specify which
>>>> pkg-config to pick, or at least just change one place.
>>>
>>> Would setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH at configuration time solve your problem?
>>>
>>> When I cross-compile or do other pkg-config hocus pocus, I invoke
>>> configure as
>>>        ./configure ... PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/my-libdrm/pkgconfig
>>>
>>
>> But that won't override the Makefiles containing hardcoded calls to
>> pkg-config, or did I miss something?
>
> pkg-config is the program, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH tells it where to find the
> .pc files.  The program may have a path built into it.  By changing
> pkg-config to $(PKG_CONFIG) are you trying to change where it finds the .pc
> files, or are you trying to change something else?
>

In my case, the program is $(TARGET)-pkg-config, so that's not sufficient.

Stéphane