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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Fix linking extract-cert against libcrypto
To:     Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
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        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
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Hello!


On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 01:44, Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> wrote:
>
> Am Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2021, 11:29:33 CET schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
>
> > I'm just guessing, but your build error looks like you are also
> > cross-building the tools, which is wrong. You want them to be host-tool=
s.
> > So don't export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR, it would then try to link targe=
t
> > libraries into a host binary.
>
> I have looked again how I do it:
>
> # this is for additional _host_ .pc files
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=3D${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig
>
> Then have a target-pkg-config, so this code inside several kernel Makefil=
es
> will work:
>
> PKG_CONFIG ?=3D $(CROSS_COMPILE)pkg-config
>
> And then export your PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR and the like inside that. I b=
et
> you have all of this already in place, so just remove the SYSROOT_DIR fro=
m
> your kernel build script and things should work.

Thank you for your comments! I will try this in our environment in the
upcoming days.

Greetings!

Daniel D=C3=ADaz
daniel.diaz@linaro.org