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

[Roumen Petrov]

Mike Frysinger 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.  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.
> -mike

This is new to 0.23 . For the old I use something like:
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$SYSROOT/lib/pkgconfig"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR PKG_CONFIG_PATH

to prevent pkg-config to find resources from build system when 
cross-compiling.

Roumen