cross-compile and autotools howto missing

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Matej Tyc wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I am cross compiling with Autotools and I use PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro in
> configure.ac
> However, some unknown thing has to be done that I am not aware of, since
> if I check for x11, I have positive response when I run 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
> and
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/i486-mingw32 --host=i486-mingw32
> (the results of the latter ./configure result in a compilation error
> later since the compiler is not able to find anything that pkg-config
> macro returned)
> There should be a mention about this in the manual or in the wiki, if
> you tell me, I can write something there with great joy.

This may be of help:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/MinGWCross/pkg-config.html

Erik

PS : I didn't answer earlier because I sometimes get behind on
     reading mail for some of the (many) lists I am on.
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