Re: *-config programs and multi-arch
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:33:52 +0200
> Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
>> >> Your cross-toolchain is supposed to set up a symlink from
>> >> /usr/bin/$triplet-pkg-config to /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper which
>> >> will then DTRT. That's the idea at least, I haven't actually tested
>> >> it.
>> >
>> > How is one supposed to make pkg-config use this feature?
>
> As Tollef mentions, this needs to be part of the setup of the
> cross-building toolchain - once we get a version of dpkg in Debian
> which can actually install, e.g. MultiArch aware armel packages on x86
> and we have enough of those packages to create such a toolchain.
>
>> > ./configure --host=muckey-muck-muck --build=my-host-type
>> >
>> > That generally does something reasonable for compilers, but ... not
>> > for pkg-config, using the normal PKG_... autoconf macros.
>
> Updated macros will work. autoreconf is your friend - until it breaks
> your world but that's an upstream issue.
>
>> They are a proposition at freedesktop about a --host flags
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/CrossCompileProposal
>>
>> But was never implemented. I will like to see this.
>
> There is a patch which does implement it, it was decided to go the way
> that autotools already expects instead.
>
>> I will personnally block multiarch impagemagick until pkconfig is
>> multiarch friendly
>
> You are confusing cross-building and multiarch. Native building in
> multiarch world is not affected by cross-build support in pkg-config or
> toolchains or anything else.
>
> It's long been the case that cross-building issues in Debian should not
> block fixes for issues which relate to the native building.
>
> Cross-building in multiarch just does the right thing with regard to
> the paths - it was dpkg-cross which was doing the right thing in the
> wrong way and using different paths just because it got there first.
>
> Please do not confuse cross-building (supplying the --host argument
> to ./configure) with MultiArch (changing the paths in .install files
> etc.) - the two impact on each other but they are NOT the same problem.
>
> MultiArch is about installing natively built packages from multiple
> architectures side-by-side. In that context, there is no need for
> $arch-pkg-config or the wrapper script which the updated version of
> pkg-config provides because MultiArch builds are always native.
Ok thanks could you add this on the wiki page on muliarch ? How to
deal with pkgconfig stuff ? It was really helpful.
Thanks a lot, will convert the hand made config script to pkgconfig
Bastien
> Do not block multiarch anything on the basis of an assessment of
> the implications of cross-building support in pkg-config.
>
> Cross-building NEEDS lots of libraries to be converted to MultiArch
> before the tools can be adapted to a MultiArch world! Blocking
> MultiArch conversions prevents us cross-building and you then setup a
> vicious circle.
>
> Get everything MultiArch'd NOW, then we'll deal with cross-building,
> once enough stuff has migrated.
>
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> Neil Williams
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