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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:12 -0400, Cliff Brake wrote:
> 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?

Its gone upstream and was in pkgconfig 0.23. The patch they merged was
broken and I've given them one to fix it but thats a different kind of
problem ;-). So yes, upstreams should take this kind of fix.

Cheers,

Richard