cross-compilation and proprietary pkg-config replacements (pcre-config, pcap-config, etc)

Hello! I'm currently in the process of adding cross-compilation support to a linux distribution, but I'm running into a lot of nasty issues. The #1 offender are proprietary pkg-config replacements, and there are many. They break cross-compilation by returning non-sysrooted include and

Re: cross-compilation and proprietary pkg-config replacements (pcre-config, pcap-config, etc)

+++ John Spencer [2014-08-15 23:49 +0200]: Hello! I'm currently in the process of adding cross-compilation support to a linux distribution, but I'm running into a lot of nasty issues. The #1 offender are proprietary pkg-config replacements, and there are many. They break cross-compilation

Re: cross-compilation and proprietary pkg-config replacements (pcre-config, pcap-config, etc)

It seems it's en vogue for libs to ship their own broken replacement rather than supplying a portable pkgconfig file... the list is big, but these here are the most often used ones: pcap-config, pcre-config, freetype-config, apr-1-config, glib-config, gtk-config, ncursesw5-config,