[oe] Preferred handling of pkg-config in cross compile environments.

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Paul Menzel <
paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I stumbled upon several programs who call plain `pkg-config` [1][2].
>
> Is the following statement correct?
>
> To be able to cross compile programs correctly, the build files are
> supposed to use the environment variable `PKG_CONFIG` and only call
> pkg-config directly if `PKG_CONFIG` is empty.
>
>        if test -z "${PKG_CONFIG}"; then
>            PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
>
> If you agree I would note that somewhere in the Wiki, so that upstream
> can be pointed to some documentation and search the Web will result in
> some useful results.
>

Can you explain why running just 'pkg-config' is a problem?  It seems to
work just fine..
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