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

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 11/16/2017 07:45 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.

>
> Alex



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Ricardo Ribalda