Re: [crossdev] [PATCH] teach ncurses-config about sysroot

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, August 26, 2010 18:46:16 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 16:24:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > * Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > so this line of reasoning could be used to support a generalized
> > > > cross tool that wraps all of the *-config scripts on the fly.
> > > 
> > > BTW: pkg-config supports $SYSROOT for quite a long time now.
> > 
> > no, it doesnt.  it supports $PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR.
> 
> just another name for it ;-o

... which means $SYSROOT is not standard at all and no one is supporting it

> > even if the basic support has been in there "for quite a long
> > time", it's been broken for most of it, so it hasnt been safe
> > to use generally yet.
> 
> In which way broken ?
> 
> I've been using it for years w/o trouble.

read the changelog.  it destroys cflags whenever it's set.
-mike

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