On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:07:40AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > (Yes, kde4-config is an ELF binary, not a script.) > > This could be a barrier to cross-compilation. > > Background (I'm sure Kevin knows this ...): > > It's generally a good idea for *-config programs to be scripts, > because you need to run them during the build process, and that fails > if it's a native program and you're cross-compiling. The exception is > pkg-config, since it can be configured to do the right thing by > setting some environment variables. ... Because pkg-config is an engine that reads platform independent data. Much like a script interpreter running a script. :P
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