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

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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?

Sure,

can you wait til monday? I have all my test tools setup in the office

>
> Alex



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Ricardo Ribalda