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Subject: Re: [PATCH linux] objtool: fix pkg-config query in case of
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To:     Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
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From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:26:12 +0200
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Le 11/04/2019 à 10:52, Rolf Eike Beer a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2019, 10:39:40 CEST schrieb Nicolas Dichtel:
>> In case of cross-compilation, there may be two pkg-config tools, one for
>> the host and one for the target. Enable to override the default name.
>>
>> Fixes: 056d28d135bc ("objtool: Query pkg-config for libelf location")
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
> 
> If you do that, you have to fix a lot of other places, too. This starts in 
> scripts/kconfig/ and also includes e.g. tools/testing/.
> 
> Usually you have pkg-config for host and ${target_platform}-pkg-config for the 
My use case was for buildroot, which define pkg-config and host-pkgconf. In
fact, I've just seen that a buildroot patch was accepted for this problem:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1081379/


Regards,
Nicolas