variables given thru shell commands in *.pc files

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2013-09-20, o godz. 13:44:10
Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch.net> napisał(a):

> I was thinking of adding some syntax to get pkg-config variables shell expanded. 
> So having in some *.pc a line like
>   somevar =| some-command
> would like the backquote or the $(...) notation in shells assign to somevar 
> the output given by some-command.
> 
> Then we might have a file mysql.pc which could e.g. contain
> 
>   ## file mysql.pc
>   ## command-expanded variables
>   version =| mysql_config --version
>   libdir =| mysql_config --variable=pkglibdir
>   mysql_cflags =| mysql_config --cflags
>   mysql_libs =| mysql_config --libs
> 
>   Name: mysql
>   Version: ${version}
>   Description: MySQL database version ${version}
>   Cflags: ${mysql_cflags}
>   Libs: ${mysql_libs}
>   ## eof mysql.pc
> 
> I would believe that such feature might be easy to implement (basically, calling popen).
> I do admit that it may open security risks (since some command is arbitrarily run).

How would that work for cross-compiling? Currently you can use
pkg-config compiled on build host to read data from target's .pc files.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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