[PATCH Libgpg-error] gpg-error.m4: support pkg-config

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:57 PM Dirk Gottschalk
<dirk.gottschalk1980 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Alon.
>
> Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2018, 22:54 +0200 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev:
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon,  3 Dec 2018 00:31, alon.barlev at gmail.com said:
> > >
> > > > Please explain again why not give an option for downstream to
> > > > build
> > > > gnupg components using pkg-config, this does not take anything
> > > > from
> > > > whoever wishes to continue to use current mode.
>
> I have no problem building the actual git snapshot of GPG only with the
> installed libraries and header files from the system. So, what are you
> complaining about? The .pc files which are not available in your case?
> Write them, if you want to link the libs with pkg-config for
> configuration.
>
> There is really no need of changing the build system at all. And yes,
> it is autoconf. The scripts are a little complicated to read, but it is
> autoconf, for sure, with some "extras".

Just to make sure we are on the same page...
Have you tried cross compile a complete solution of libraries? Have
you tried cross-compile + multilib setup?
If you have, how many tweaks have you needed in order to make this work?

Thanks!
Alon