[Bug 877673] Re: Cross compilation fails due to pkg-config

[Colin Watson]

This doesn't seem to be a problem any more with multiarch cross-building
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CrossBuilding), which has dropped the old-style
dpkg-cross-ish PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR handling:

http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/cross/armhf/raring/ncurses_5.9-10ubuntu2_armhf-20121206-2259

Would you object to considering this closed?  It's a different build
system, but (as the author) I consider xdeb a dead-end experiment at
this point; it served its purpose, and its ordering heuristics may still
be useful, but multiarch cross-building is a more future-proof approach.

** Tags added: cross

** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Low

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Title:
  Cross compilation fails due to pkg-config

Status in “ncurses” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Attempting to cross-compile ncurses with xdeb results in failure when
  attempting to install pkg-config files. This is because autotools
  inferred that PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/$(HOST_GNU_TYPE)/lib/pkgconfig,
  which does not exist when configure is run. This results in configure
  disabling generation of pkgconfig's .pc files (which would have been
  put in the wrong location even if they had been generated).

  The solution as far as I can see is to export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in
  debian/rules and ensure that this directory exists when configure is
  invoked. A patch to accomplish this is attached.

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