]] Helmut Grohne
Hi Helmut,
thanks for the prod on IRC.
> What's wrong with the wrapper? Consider I installed pkg-config:amd64 and
> am now running i586-linux-gnu-pkg-config in a package build. The wrapper
> correctly determines the shell variable
> basename=i586-linux-gnu-pkg-config and derives multiarch=i386-linux-gnu.
> It now determines the architecture of pkg-config using the following
> (erroneous) line:
>
> native_multiarch="`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH 2>/dev/null`"
>
> Since we are in a package build, dpkg has set up all those
> DEB_{BUILD,HOST,TARGET}_* variables and since we are building for i386,
> native_multiarch will wrongly end up as i386-linux-gnu as well. Thus the
> cross wrapper skips the setup of PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR entirely and passes
> on to pkg-config with no environment modification.
Right, this is the same as doko reported in #807946. Do you have any
concerns about his patch there or can I use that instead of your much
more comprehensive one?
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