Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

["Andrej Shadura" <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, at 22:25, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Beware that to be compatible with what pkg-config does (and what
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES wants), the cross-tools need to be prefixed with a
> GNU tuple, and *not* a multiarch tuple. So in particular for i386, you
> will need to provide /usr/bin/i686-linux-gnu-pkg-config (and presumably
> a matching personality).
>
> In other words, this is ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-pkg-config and not
> ${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}-pkg-config. This matches the pattern used for
> other cross-tools like compilers.
>
> You might want to *also* provide ${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}-pkg-config, if they
> differ, but it is ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-pkg-config that is canonically used.

Thanks for pointing out, that’s something I need to fix.

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Cheers,
  Andrej