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

[Matt Turner]

2011/10/3 Stéphane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin at gmail.com>:
> 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

This is what I asked about on IRC. I don't understand why the host
system's pkgconfig binary wouldn't work for you with a suitably set
PKG_CONFIG_PATH envvar.

configs/autoconf.in should be updated as well, I think.

Matt