[OE-core] [PATCH] default-providers: set pkgconf as the preferred provider for pkg-config

[Burton, Ross]

On 25 September 2017 at 11:44, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 09/24/2017 11:21 PM, Maxin B. John wrote:
>
> @@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_getopt ?= "util-linux-getopt"
>>   PREFERRED_PROVIDER_openssl ?= "openssl"
>>   PREFERRED_PROVIDER_openssl-native ?= "openssl-native"
>>   PREFERRED_PROVIDER_nativesdk-openssl ?= "nativesdk-openssl"
>> -PREFERRED_PROVIDER_pkgconfig ?= "pkgconfig"
>> -PREFERRED_PROVIDER_nativesdk-pkgconfig ?= "nativesdk-pkgconfig"
>> -PREFERRED_PROVIDER_pkgconfig-native ?= "pkgconfig-native"
>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_pkgconfig ?= "pkgconf"
>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_nativesdk-pkgconfig ?= "nativesdk-pkgconf"
>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_pkgconfig-native ?= "pkgconf-native"
>>
>
> Why not simply replace one with the other outright? Is there a benefit in
> providing both, or known issues with the newer implementation?
>

Phased migration.  We can run with this for a while (post Rocko, obviously)
and then drop pkgconfig and add PROVIDES to pkgconf if it proves stable.

Ross
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