[oe] xfonts, mapfile dir, and pkg-config issue
Cliff Brake
cliff.brake at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 01:12:45 UTC 2008
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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`
Is the the pkgconfig sysroot-support.patch going upstream, or is that
an OE only thing?
Cliff
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