[oe] xfonts, mapfile dir, and pkg-config issue

[Cliff Brake]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:13 -0400, Cliff Brake wrote:
>  > This issue is that "pkg-config --variable=mapdir fontutil" returns:
>  >
>  > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/util
>  >
>  > which is correct if mapdir is used on the target system, but in this
>  > case mapdir is used on the host system during the build, so it really
>  > needs the path to staging.
>  >
>  > We can't modify font-util to put the staging path in fontutil.pc or
>  > insane.class complains about tmdir's in a *.pc file.
>  >
>  > What is the correct solution in this case?
>  >
>  > 1) hardcode EXTRA_OECONF with the MAPFILES_PATH (would require
>  > patching font packages -- bad)
>
>  If you can override from the commandline this may be an option,
>  particularly if all font packages accept the same option and we can use
>  a .inc file.
>
>  The alternative is to patch the configure.ac files so it uses something
>  like:
>
>  $PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR`pkg-config --variable=mapdir fontutil`
>
>  which in theory should be accepted upstream too...

This seems like the best option.

>  > 2) convince insane.class that this tmpdir is really OK in fontutil.pc
>
>  >From what you said above, this wouldn't help.

We would also have to modify the font-util recipe, then it appears to work:

--- packages/xorg-font/font-util_1.0.1.bb
29499d32e8b5b2e57bdda74b6b9a0c8c67b14225
+++ packages/xorg-font/font-util_1.0.1.bb
3a7987e8d665539167ca9d2034222ca9b21346b7
@@ -5,5 +5,7 @@ RDEPENDS = "mkfontdir mkfontscale encodi
 DEPENDS = "encodings"
 RDEPENDS = "mkfontdir mkfontscale encodings"

-PR = "r1"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-mapdir=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${libdir}/X11/fonts/util"
+
+PR = "r3"
 PE = "1"

But, I agree this should really be fixed in the package source, so
I'll go that route and try to get it pushed upstream.

Thanks for the ideas.

Cliff

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