cross-compile and autotools howto missing

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Matěj Týč wrote:

> > Yes, but that behaviour is deprecated and is in the process of 
> > being removed from the default behaviour of autoconf.
> 
> I am on the autoconf mailing list and I have a feeling that this
> "process of being removed" can take ages. 
> Actually, what is going to happen when it is removed? Isn't going to
> break the pkg-config autotools support?

Its only going to break things where people are cross compiling
but using the native pkg-config. Than can be fixed by creating
a <cross-compiler>-pkg-config script like I suggested in my 
blog post.

> > Obviously, this could be fixed now with a little autoconf
> > hackery.
> 
> Do you have an idea what sort of hackery it should be?

Gram the existing pkg.m4 macro, fix it (possibly renaming the
macros) and put it in your source tree.

Erik
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