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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: hasufell@g.o, multilib@g.o, "Mike Frysinger (vapier)" <vapier@g.o>, toolchain@g.o, embedded@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:55:24
Message-Id: 20140313095502.73dc080b@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference by hasufell
1 Dnia 2014-03-12, o godz. 15:46:01
2 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> napisał(a):
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7 > We have a problem where the crossdev pkg-config wrapper scripts
8 > interfere with multilib.
9 >
10 > crossdev for example sets in their pkg-config wrappers:
11 >
12 > PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="${SYSROOT}/usr/lib/pkgconfig:${SYSROOT}/usr/share/pkgconfig"
13 >
14 > Now, SYSROOT is chosen from multiple conditions. When emerging a
15 > package, that happens to be "/" and thus results in:
16 > "//usr/lib/pkgconfig://usr/share/pkgconfig"
17 >
18 > Build systems like autotools will pick the crossdev provided
19 > "i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config" for the 32bit ABI which will in turn
20 > override the eclass-exported PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR and now effectively
21 > find the pkg-config files in /usr/lib64/...
22 >
23 > This is not a problem most of the time if the package just wants to
24 > get the libs to link against.
25 >
26 > However, every package that tries to access variables that are
27 > different between /usr/lib32/pkgconfig/foo.pc and
28 > /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/foo.pc like "libdir" will fail or produce
29 > unexpected results.
30 >
31 > That already happens for
32 > x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver
33 > x11-libs/libva (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500338)
34 >
35 > and there are probably more.
36
37 Another possible workaround is to make pkgconfig true-multilib. Then it
38 would own i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkgconfig, and that executable would work
39 correctly. More than that, we could work on killing the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
40 hack.
41
42 --
43 Best regards,
44 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>