linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux] objtool: fix pkg-config query in case of cross-compilation

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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:26:12 +0200
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     Rolf Eike Beer <eb@...ix.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux] objtool: fix pkg-config query in case of
 cross-compilation

Le 11/04/2019 à 10:52, Rolf Eike Beer a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2019, 10:39:40 CEST schrieb Nicolas Dichtel:
>> In case of cross-compilation, there may be two pkg-config tools, one for
>> the host and one for the target. Enable to override the default name.
>>
>> Fixes: 056d28d135bc ("objtool: Query pkg-config for libelf location")
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> 
> If you do that, you have to fix a lot of other places, too. This starts in 
> scripts/kconfig/ and also includes e.g. tools/testing/.
> 
> Usually you have pkg-config for host and ${target_platform}-pkg-config for the 
My use case was for buildroot, which define pkg-config and host-pkgconf. In
fact, I've just seen that a buildroot patch was accepted for this problem:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1081379/


Regards,
Nicolas