On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 11:21 AM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 06:55:47PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > Same idea than overriding PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH, it can be quite
> > useful to override compilation flags like CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> > for cross compilation or libraries that won't provide a pkg-config file.
> >
> > Fixes: 272236741258 ("devtools: load target-specific compilation
> > environment")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> > ---
>
> No strong objection to this change, but for meson the better way to handle
> this may be to put these flags into the cross-file used for the build. By
> explicitly passing CFLAGS etc. to the build, I'm not sure what the
> behaviour is with regards to passing those flags to cross-built vs
> native-built components. For a cross-compile, not all CFLAGS should be
> passed to the build of pmdinfogen, for instance.
Ok, I see.
Then the only usecase would be for locally built libraries that meson
can't find by itself.
A bit hackish too.
Mm, is there a way to tell meson "library X (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS) is (xx, yy)" ?
I could write some local .pc files and override PKG_CONFIG_PATH...
Any better idea ?
--
David Marchand
