On 22/09/2011 07:36, Steve Langasek wrote:
> So my suggestion would be to make the script special-case i386, instead of
> adding a runtime dependency on dpkg-dev for dpkg-architecture.
We can use dpkg-architecture and fail back on hard-coded (with or
without the handling of i386) if dpkg-architecture is not present. So,
this script will remain correct, even if other multiarch dirs are
introduced.
> However:
>
>> One subtle departure from Steve's patch here is that if you run
>> armv5tel-linux-gnueabi-pkg-config on an i386 system, it will never search
>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig - which I think is desirable. If you're missing a
>> cross-compiled dependency (zlib, say), it's better that configure fails
>> early, rather than trying to link an i386 zlib into an armel binary
>> and failing horribly later.
>
> Keeping /usr/lib/pkgconfig on the path was quite deliberate on my part.
> Certainly any library shipping in /usr/lib/pkgconfig is not a multiarch
> library, but that doesn't actually mean it has to be a *native* library: it
> will be possible to cross-install many -dev packages for a while before it's
> possible to co-install them together with the native versions.
>
> So I do think it's useful to look in /usr/lib/pkgconfig by default even in
> the cross-config (and obviously as a last resort, after searching the
> architecture-specific directories). In general I think people will find it
> easier to simply remove any conflicting native -dev packages from their
> build environment than to fiddle with the pkg-config path.
For my part, I think this is really error prone. Lots of native
libraries will be wrongly detected as present when cross-compiling.
Users still have the possibility to overwrite PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or to
use PKG_CONFIG_PATH. So, let's the user do this if he really wants to
include /usr/lib/pkgconfig (this can be documented if required)
Regards,
Vincent
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