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author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> | 2012-12-07 12:07:54 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-12-08 22:10:02 +0100 |
commit | c07a6f3ff36c85ce1daec34c16dea8ab95ec4c78 (patch) | |
tree | 0979416ba1e76dc4c8a0974c379fe1efd63353b7 /docs/INTERNALS | |
parent | d021f2e8a0067fc769652f27afec9024c0d02b3d (diff) |
configure: fix cross pkg-config detection
When cross-compiling, CURL_CHECK_PKGCONFIG was checking for the cross
pkg-config using ${host}-pkg-config.
The gold standard for doing this correctly is pkg-config's own macro,
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG. However, on the assumption that you have a good
reason not to use that directly (reduced dependencies for maintainer
builds?), the behaviour of cURL's version should at least match.
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG uses AC_PATH_TOOL, which ultimately ends up trying
${host_alias}-pkg-config; this is not quite the same as what cURL does,
and may differ because ${host} has been run through config.sub. For
instance, when cross-building to the armhf architecture on Ubuntu,
${host_alias} is arm-linux-gnueabihf while ${host} is
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf. This may also have been the cause of the
problem reported at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0224.html.
AC_PATH_TOOL is significantly simpler than cURL's current code, and
dates back to well before the current minimum of Autoconf 2.57, so let's
use it instead.
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