[oe] sysroot vs. finding header files

Holger Freyther zecke at selfish.org
Tue Mar 11 12:16:15 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 11 March 2008 12:08:27 Richard Purdie wrote:

> Needing to know the absolute path to the header is not as common a
> requirement as you'd expect. There are ways and means but pulling it
> from pkg-config the way that package did isn't a good one.

Hehe, John just stumbled across another case in python-gtk. And cmake loves 
absolute paths for certain things but it has sysroot support. Anyway we will 
fix this one by one and there is no easy way to find out who is doing such 
things. Nothing that could have been differently. :)

z.




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