[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure.ac: Add --with-wayland-scanner-path

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Jussi,

On 26 May 2017 at 14:55, Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen at intel.com> wrote:
> On 26 May 2017 at 14:32, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> b) with a wrapper script - see [1].
>> I think that the "export PKG_CONFIG_DIR=" is a typo (should be ..PATH
>> instead) and is not strictly required - feel free to check either way.
>> Note that the exec at the end might need to be amended to
>> /path/to/$(CHOST)-pkg-config.
>
> We don't provide a target wrapper -- I believe because it provides no value
> at all on top of the setup we have (the pkg-config that autotools finds has
> all the environment variables set correctly. It is essentially
> $(CHOST)-pkg-config already).
>
> If I've missed something, I'd be happy to hear that. At the moment I think
> pkg-config just does not help in this case.

Thinking out loud, how about searching for a separate pkg-config file
(wayland-scanner-native.pc as a strawman) first, then falling back to
wayland-scanner.pc? The BitBake recipes could then install that
somewhere in $PKG_CONFIG_PATH as a special case in the install target.

Cheers,
Daniel