[OE-core] [PATCH v2] meson: Port pkgconfig-native patch to 0.43.0

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 11/16/2017 07:57 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:

>>> +Some libraries, like QT, have pre-processors that convert their input
>>> +files into something that the cross-compiler can process. We find the
>>> +path of those pre-processors via pkg-config-native instead of
>>> +pkg-config.
>>> +
>>> +This path forces the use of pkg-config-native for host_bins arguments.
>>> +
>>> +There are some discussions upstream to merge this patch, but I presonaly
>>> believe
>>> +that is is OE only.
>>> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1849#issuecomment-303730323
>>
>>
>> Does the snippet from Martin's patch that I just commented on solve this
>> issue in a much simpler way?
> 
> I am afraid not. We need to call pkg-config for getting the -libs
> -cflags, et all, and pkg-config-native for --host_bins We cannot use
> the same pkg-config for all unfortunatelly.

Unfortunately, the same patch needs to be ported again to 0.44.0, as the 
changes upstream made are non-trivial. Can you do that please?

Alex