Hi Sergei, On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 05:41:14PM +0200, Sergei Golubchik wrote: > Ok. Two thoughts. First, libmariadb comes with mariadb.pc pkg-config > file. Does it have all you need to build? If not, we can, perhaps, add > missing info to it.
The pkg-config part works great for cross compilation. There is nothing you need to change here. It really just works. The problem is that not everything uses pkg-config. Some downstreams prefer using mariadb_config or more commonly mysql_config. Deprecating mysql_config and telling everyone to use pkg-config could be part of a long-term solution and I've done that to some packages (e.g. collectd, courier-authlib, lighttpd, rsyslog, sphinxsearch, ulogd2), but that's a lot of effort to get there. One package that is particularly hard to convert to using pkg-config is mysql-connector-c++. See https://sources.debian.org/src/mysql-connector-c++/1.1.12-4/FindMySQL.cmake/. Please try converting this to pkg-config. > Second, binary mariadb_config does nothing else but printing a set of > string. If there's no other choice, we could consider providing a shell > script with the same functionality too. Exactly. The script I attached to the bug submission converts mariadb_config into a shell script that behaves exactly the same. You point it at mariadb_config and you get back a shell script that behaves exactly the same way. The major difference here is that the shell script will work for cross compiling downstreams that happen to not use pkg-config. Helmut
